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“We’re just following the science.” That simple and seemingly unobjectionable statement has been used over the past year to justify every policy, regulation, and law related to COVID-19, no matter their scope or the length they’re in place. Of course, we are in a pandemic and science is necessary for understanding how to dea ...

**Editor’s note on upcoming PLF event** 2020 was a difficult year. Around the world, we saw governments buckle under the weight of a pandemic, and communities and institutions struggled to meet the demands of the crisis.   While government leaders sought to alleviate the ills of the pandemic, they frequently exacerbated the problem with arbi ...

America’s civil rights movement ended the legalized segregation that forced black students into separate—and very much unequal—schools. But decades later, the quality of education for too many of the country’s minority children has still not improved. And unfortunately, instead of fighting for better-quality education for all studen ...

What would your family do with an extra $3,000 a year? Pay down debts? Invest? Save? Go on vacation? An extra few thousand dollars can mean a lot to the average family. That’s why recent news about the successful rollback of burdensome regulations is an important first step in the fight against the out-of-control, and … ...

Property rights earned a major Supreme Court win last week in Knick v. Township of Scott, opening the federal courthouse doors to property owners. And people are noticing. In brief, the decision overruled an old 1985 decision that forced Fifth Amendment property rights claims out of federal courts, effectively reducing those rights to second-class ...