Illegal Immigration and the Border Crisis
Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.
The Biden administration is using misleading statistics and rhetoric to hide its role in perpetuating the migrant crisis.
In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.
Recent migrant scandals force us to consider who, how, and how much.
The breakdown at the border has at once become a symbol of our polarization and an accelerant of it.
Kamala Harris hasn’t clarified her position on immigration and the border wall, and the media won’t press her to do so.
Economists are wrong about migration and its effects.
Can we fix America’s immigration problems by reforming foreign governments? The Biden–Harris administration thought so.
New York City sees tens of thousands of illegal aliens as a bonanza for no-bid deals.
Donald Trump’s proposal to give green cards to all foreign students who graduate from a U.S. college is a bad idea.
Mainstream media outlets refuse to cover illegal-immigrant crime.
It is unequivocally the intended result of Biden administration policy.
The president’s recent pledge to “shut down” the border suggests that, if nothing else could, his political survival might finally motivate him to enforce the law.
The Biden administration misleads the public about its new parole system.
State and local governments are spending billions on migrants and asylum seekers—and the bill will only grow steeper.
The president’s move to construct 20 miles of barrier fence on the Mexican border is too little, too late, but still a symbolic victory for sanity.
From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on higher education in the United States
A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
Podcasts
City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.
In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.
The Spotlight
Republicans’ high-spirited convention, culminating in Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, exemplified the changes the GOP has undergone since 2016.
Facing long odds, Donald Trump rewrote the political playbook.
How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables
They want self-government back.
Elites are building a system to control and constrain Americans’ self-expression and political freedom.
Our divides are as much epistemological as political.
With roots dating back to our Founding, America’s urban-rural split is wider than ever.
New York used to be more than a money stop for the nation’s chief executives.
The Democrats: how progress became drift
The Republicans: party of virtue
A new book analyzes the hellfire and hucksterism behind William Friedkin’s horror classic, The Exorcist.
Edgar Allan Poe and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Democrats’ abandonment of their traditional blue-collar constituency is bad for their party—and for the country.
The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness.
Rather than embrace the good, the true, and the beautiful, many of the schools have adopted the politically correct fads of secular universities.
Christopher Lasch’s cultural criticism anticipated our narcissistic age.
The federal government is spending too much on post-disaster rebuilding and too little on prevention.
Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.
Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.
The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions.
