When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?
Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.
July 2020
Alone Together in the Pandemic
How we lost our social spaces and how we found them again
Features
Criminal Justice Divides the 'Conservative' Judiciary
Pundits often speak of the judiciary in terms of liberal or conservative judges issuing liberal or conservative opinions. The reality is far more complicated.
Why Redistricting Reform Goes Off the Rails
"Buddymandering" is the widespread map-related misconduct that's wrecking our elections.
Disaster Relief for Small Businesses Is a Disaster All Its Own
The Small Business Administration will always fail the people it's meant to help.
Interview
'People Should Have the Fundamental Right To Change Their Consciousness'
Rick Doblin, a leading force in America's psychedelic renaissance, imagines a world of "mass mental health" facilitated by formerly demonized drugs.
Topics
What 9/11 and the Financial Crisis Teach Us About COVID-19
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
India's New Nationalism, and Ours
Most immigrants, even more than many natives, viscerally appreciate America, because they know what it's like to live in an unfree country.
White House (Sort of) Admits Tariffs Are Paid by Americans
For two years, the president and his defenders have stubbornly claimed, contra both theory and evidence, that the duties are absorbed by China and other exporters.
Trump's Bump Stock Ban Is Under Fire From His Own Judicial Appointees
This unilateral executive action has been scrutinized by both Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr.
Governments Are Cutting Red Tape To Keep Americans Fed
Regulators ought to take a scalpel to the many burdensome rules still on the books.
Will Latin American Civil Rights Be a Casualty of Coronavirus?
Protesters in many countries may find themselves facing down state forces with extralegal powers and a muzzled press.
Face Mask Volunteers DIY Their Own Kind of Division of Labor
Making masks, face shields, and other protective equipment is the bottom-up, COVID-19 version of rolling bandages or knitting socks for the troops.
Books
Drugs and Ammo
A look at war through the lens of the performance enhancers that help make it possible
Reviews
ETC.
Michael Munger Says 'Price Gouging' Gives Us Information We Need
Such laws end up causing more shortages than they solve, especially during a crisis.
Brickbats: July 2020
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
