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What Have We Learned About Ourselves During the Coranavirus Quarantine?
The Reason Roundtable podcast discusses.
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What have we learned about ourselves during the coronavirus quarantine, and which characters line up with the personality traits of @nickgillespie, @petersuderman, @mattwelch and @kmanguward? The @Reason Roundtable discusses.
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The CDC's Revised Face Mask Advice Is Based on Information That Was Available Months Ago
Surgeon General Jerome Adams wants us to believe the CDC realized the danger posed by asymptomatic carriers only last week.
Sotomayor Upbraids SCOTUS for a Decision That 'Destroys Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence That Requires Individualized Suspicion'
The justice filed a lone dissent in Kansas v. Glover.
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Justice Sotomayor described the majority’s handiwork as a decision that “destroys Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that requires individualized suspicion.”
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White House Recommends Against Grocery and Pharmacy Trips While Trump Says Go Ahead and Try Hydroxychloroquine
Plus: shutdown suits, the pantry police, and more...
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The White House says Americans should "not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy" for two weeks. #ReasonRoundup
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The Federal Government Is Spending $60 Billion To Keep Mostly Empty Commercial Planes Flying Over the U.S.
Pending minimum service rules would require airlines to keep operating a certain number of flights, regardless of how little demand there is for air travel. .
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"We are left in the worst possible world of businesses getting a bunch of taxpayer money on the condition that they waste it"
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Not Even COVID-19 Can Shake New Jersey's Fear of Letting Drivers Pump Their Own Gas
But Oregon grudgingly relents. For now.
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The Garden State has steadfastly refused to reform a decades-old law that allows only state-certified gas station employees to operate fuel pumps. Not even a global pandemic, it seems, will force the state to change course.
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How the Government Bungled the Coronavirus Response
"We have the capacity to keep this contained," Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers on March 2.
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On the Reason Roundtable, @MattWelch, @kmanguward, @nickgillespie and @petersuderman discuss the catastrophe of slow testing, the mixed messaging on masks, the huge bailout/stimulus package, and what to watch and listen to during the days of quarantine.
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Coronavirus Reveals Utter Sameness of Democrats and Republicans
The election committees of both parties use the same language to attack Rep. Justin Amash (I–Mich.).
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The next time someone says there are great differences between the @GOP & @DNC, point them to these responses by @DCCC & @NRCC to @justinamash's vote on #coronavirus spending bill, writes @nickgillespie.
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L.A. Tried—and Mostly Failed—To Fix Bad Permit Rules for Restaurants That Want To Sell Groceries
First, they didn't have grocery permits. Now they are not allowed to take any walk-ins.
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The new policy continues to discriminate against restaurants in favor of licensed grocery stores and will make it decidedly more difficult for dining establishments to offer basic goods.
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When 'Price Gouging' Is Good: Michael Munger
The Duke economist and political scientist discusses the response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it.
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Duke economist @mungowitz on the economic and public health response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it. Podcast
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These 10 Underappreciated Movies Make for the Perfect Quarantine Viewing Experience
Offbeat options for waiting out the apocalypse.
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Check out Kurt Loder's list of movies that were underappreciated in their own time, and deserve a second chance during quarantine.
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Matt Ridley on How To Beat the Next Pandemic
The "rational optimist" talks about coronavirus, Brexit, libertarianism, and his next book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
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"If you want to preserve freedom…you need to unleash the freedom to innovate, to solve the problem in good times."
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Anti-Trump Democrats Learn That Internet Censorship Blocks Them Too
Anyone who wants to restrict free speech should contemplate what it would be like if your enemy gets to choose what gets said.
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Last fall, anti-Trump Democrats cheered restrictions on online political ads. Now they are realizing that censorship blocks them too, writes @nickgillespie.
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The FDA Is Making It Much, Much Harder for Distilleries To Produce Hand Sanitizer
Rules designed to keep alcohol safe for children are slowing down production of a product that’s in short supply.
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Liquor producers want to make a lot more hand sanitizer, but the FDA is making it much, much more difficult.
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While a Real Epidemic Raged, the Surgeon General Was Spreading Misinformation About Masks and Vaping
Jerome Adams clung to older, faulty narratives in the crucial early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams spread misinformation about vaping and mask use while the coronavirus spread.
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Unemployment Claims Hit 6.6 Million. It's Officially Worse Than the Great Recession.
Plus: The feds are still targeting Juul, Call of Duty wins First Amendment lawsuit, and more...
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With 6.6 million new unemployment claims, the U.S. has already lost more jobs than during the Great Recession #ReasonRoundup
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Matt Ridley: The Coronavirus Pandemic Shows 'That There's No Monopoly on Wisdom'
The renowned science writer talks about pandemics, Chinese authoritarianism, Brexit, and why the freedom to innovate must not be quashed.
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"If you want to preserve freedom…you need to unleash the freedom to innovate, to solve the problem in good times."
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Matt Ridley: The Coronavirus Pandemic Shows 'That There's No Monopoly on Wisdom'
The renowned science writer talks about pandemics, Chinese authoritarianism, Brexit, and why the freedom to innovate must not be quashed. ------------------ ...
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The "Rational Optimist" @mattwridley shared his views on why the #coronavirus caught him by surprise, when the world economy will reopen, why #Brexit is good, and whether authoritarian countries can really innovate.
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Can Police Task Forces Play Jurisdiction Games To Avoid Liability for Misconduct?
An innocent man was beaten up by a local police detective and an FBI agent. No one wants to take responsibility.
U.S. Sex Workers and 'Prurient' Businesses Explicitly Excluded From COVID-19 Disaster Loans
Plus: U.S. movie theaters made only a little more than $5,000 last week, COVID-19 cases in Florida surge, and more....
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U.S. sex workers, "prurient" businesses, gambling businesses, and people who are behind on child support payments are explicitly excluded from eligibility for COVID-19 disaster relief loans
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