nanny state

Will You Aliens Please Continue to Hold the Real Fetterman? His Doppleganger Is Based AF

Beege Welborn 9:20 PM | January 25, 2024

U.K. nannies are coming for your office birthday cake

Beege Welborn 5:31 PM | January 18, 2023

How the child tax credit exemplifies what's going wrong

Jazz Shaw 2:31 PM | February 01, 2022

After banning plastic bags, NYC will now tax paper bags

Jazz Shaw 2:31 PM | April 03, 2019

San Francisco can't stop illegal aliens, but by God they can keep chocolate milk out of schools

Jazz Shaw 2:01 PM | July 16, 2017

Texas' backwards thinking on regulations

Taylor Millard 6:31 PM | June 11, 2017

To defend a higher minimum wage, San Fran looks at... banning robots

Jazz Shaw 7:21 PM | June 01, 2017

Rhode Island moves to criminalize free range parenting

Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | March 19, 2016

Uh oh. New York judge rules that vaping is not the same thing as smoking

Jazz Shaw 10:41 AM | February 23, 2016

Gov't to creamery: Your milk is entirely too natural to not be labeled "imitation"

Mary Katharine Ham 10:01 PM | August 20, 2015

Government still wrong about salt, still doesn't care

Mary Katharine Ham 10:11 PM | April 07, 2015

'Merica: Kids and parents take to Capitol Hill to protest sledding ban by sledding

Mary Katharine Ham 10:01 PM | March 05, 2015

Surprise: Government has been wrong about cholesterol for 40 years

Mary Katharine Ham 10:01 PM | February 12, 2015

FCC commissioner: Get ready for a government takeover of the Internet

Ed Morrissey 6:41 PM | February 06, 2015

Literal nanny state alert: MD couple questioned for kids walking 1 mile home from park

Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM | January 16, 2015

ObamaCare an edict from "elitists" who don't get the American people, says ... Howard Dean

Ed Morrissey 8:41 AM | November 13, 2014

The War on Soda claims its first victory

Jazz Shaw 8:01 PM | November 05, 2014

The soda wars move to Berkeley

Jazz Shaw 11:01 AM | October 19, 2014

When college kangaroo courts graduate to state law

Jazz Shaw 4:01 PM | October 15, 2014

Obama administration routs scourge of ISIS pink cookies in schools

Jazz Shaw 4:01 PM | August 23, 2014

Illinois legislators briefly consider, promptly dismiss soda-tax proposal

Erika Johnsen 8:01 PM | May 27, 2014

Only in NY - School hands 66 lb girl note saying she's fat

Jazz Shaw 5:31 PM | May 24, 2014

Billion-dollar ObamaCare contract pays people to do ... nothing?

Ed Morrissey 9:21 AM | May 13, 2014

Former loathsome nanny-state mayor's anti-big soda crusade lives on with new, even more loathsome nanny-state mayor

Erika Johnsen 5:01 PM | May 05, 2014

NBC: Isn't it great to have a multi-billionaire pour money into politics?

Ed Morrissey 12:01 PM | April 17, 2014

New loathsome nanny-state initiative: Banning bottomless brunches

Mary Katharine Ham 9:21 PM | February 26, 2014

A brief word on James Bond and martinis

Jazz Shaw 6:31 PM | December 15, 2013

Guess who is trying to regulate e-cigarettes?

Jazz Shaw 4:01 PM | November 23, 2013

The best nanny state order ever?

Jazz Shaw 6:31 PM | November 17, 2013

Video: Reason's Nanny of the Month is ...

Ed Morrissey 6:01 PM | September 30, 2013

Out of other problems, L.A. city government goes after...tree houses

Mary Katharine Ham 10:01 PM | September 11, 2013

Chuck Schumer and the great Greek-yogurt grift

Erika Johnsen 11:41 AM | August 01, 2013

Eye on the ball: Washington authorities crack down on guy planting unauthorized flowers

Mary Katharine Ham 8:41 PM | June 25, 2013

Eye on the ball: Country without TP ponders banning baby bottles

Mary Katharine Ham 3:11 PM | June 18, 2013

Heh: Appeals court openly skeptical, borderline derisive of Bloomberg's big-soda ban

Erika Johnsen 4:41 PM | June 12, 2013

Super Nannies: EU bans olive oils, Germany ponders Autobahn speed limit

Mary Katharine Ham 6:01 PM | May 24, 2013

Great news: Government salt intake guidelines useless, may even be dangerous

Ed Morrissey 2:01 PM | May 15, 2013

NYC looking to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21

Erika Johnsen 2:01 PM | April 23, 2013

The next ban... e-cigarettes

Jazz Shaw 7:01 PM | April 13, 2013

Study: Yeah, that NYC soda ban would probably backfire

Erika Johnsen 7:41 PM | April 11, 2013

Good news: N.Y. Democrat wants to ban wearing costumes in public

Mary Katharine Ham 10:01 PM | April 09, 2013

MSNBC panelists: A lot of this opposition to Bloomberg's anti-gun campaign is probably fueled by anti-Semitism

Erika Johnsen 12:41 PM | March 25, 2013

FDA abandoning that legal battle over gruesome cigarette labels

Erika Johnsen 8:41 PM | March 19, 2013

Obama drops 10% in one month. In... New York?

Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM | March 12, 2013

Loathsome nutritionist thinks loathsome nanny-state mayor doesn't go far enough

Jazz Shaw 2:01 PM | March 10, 2013

Loathsome nanny-state mayor's latest initiative: Loud earbuds

Erika Johnsen 2:21 PM | March 06, 2013

Loathsome nanny-state mayor: The entire state should probably get on board with my soda ban

Erika Johnsen 8:01 PM | February 25, 2013

Loathsome nanny-state mayor now considering banning styrofoam

Erika Johnsen 7:11 PM | February 07, 2013

Video: Reason's Nanny of the Month is ...

Ed Morrissey 4:31 PM | February 01, 2013

Loathsome nanny-state mayor: I don't 'force anybody to do anything'

Mary Katharine Ham 12:41 PM | January 17, 2013