The bizarre and erratic policies of President Trump continue. One minute the president is reducing troops in hot zones, a few minutes later he is sending troops into hot zones. The Pentagon is deploying US troops to Syria after a series of escalating encounters...

The Cato Institute came out Tuesday with its Pandemics and Policy collection of coronavirus-and-pandemics-related articles described as purposed to “provide policymakers with an actionable guide to policies that can harness [old‐fashioned American ingenuity] and...

Remember President Donald Trump saying he wanted things to open up in America by Easter? Oh well. Throughout most of America, the coronavirus crackdowns are continuing strong five months after Easter. And United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

Many state fairs across America were canceled this year. The reason offered: coronavirus. It should be no surprise that among the states where an annual state fair did occur this year is South Dakota. South Dakota is the state whose governor — Kristi Noem — has...

San Francisco will allow indoor hair and nail salons and gyms to open with limited capacity Monday, nearly six months after coronavirus shelter-in-place orders shuttered them.Notes the San Francisco Chronicle: The moves accelerate San Francisco’s timelines for...

How would you feel if the next brand new car you bought came with the following disclaimer: This car is sold “as is”. The buyer assumes all responsibility for this vehicle. There is no warranty expressed or implied. There is no guarantee that the following will not...

JB reports in: I just got home from back surgery where I spent 4 days in the hospital to start the recovery process. I was able to have some really good conversations with the nurses that were caring for me. First off, the hospital was empty (in Alaska). I asked one...

College, long a fun and liberating experience for many young adults, has become a dreary and oppressive experience for many students living under the weight of a multitude of restrictions imposed at American college campuses in the name of countering coronavirus....

There are hoodlums across America looting and burning down businesses, banging on people’s vehicles while ordering drivers rudely where to drive, bearing down on people to intimidate them into expressing support for this or that cause, and committing other crimes of...

NoMask.info reports that actress Sharon Stone posted on Instagram a screed blaming non-mask wearers for her sister's diagnosis with Covid-19: My sister Kelly, who already has lupus, now has COVID-19. This is her hospital room. One of you Non-Mask wearers did this. She...

Many parents have been fearful that their children may be harmed or killed by coronavirus if in-person attendance at high school resumes. This fear, however, has little basis in reality. Among teenagers overall, the risk of death from coronavirus is virtually zero,...

Are the people of Belarus taking to the streets to defend the sanctity of their elections against the "theft" by President Lukashenko? Are these protests by the "pro-democracy" forces against the authoritarianism of 26 years of Lukashenko rule? RPI Director Daniel...

College ain’t what it used to be. Supposedly because of a virus that for most college students is less of a threat to their lives than riding in a car, students at college campuses this fall will be subjected to dystopian controls from required mask wearing and...

Across much of America, people are masked by mandate and large events are shut down by decree. But, in South Dakota, things are different. You can be mask-free in the state that has avoided most of the coronavirus crackdown imposed in much of the rest of America. And,...

In a Friday Reason article by Zuri Davis, Davis discusses a conversation she had the day before with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen. It was interesting to see Davis recount in the article that Jorgensen expressed approval of mask mandates for...

America is moving up the ranks of the Bloomberg Misery Index, an index in which being number one means being the worst. Last year, America came in 50th. This year, America jumped to 25th among 60 economies compared based on their estimated price growth and...