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America’s Squatting Crisis

Wai Wah Chin Restoring the American Dream for Small Property Owners

New York must reevaluate its housing laws and policies.

Jul 25 2024
Charles Blain Texas Squatters Have Rights—For Now

State legislators are looking for ways to speed evictions and deter illegal occupancies.

Jul 15 2024
Judge Glock California v. Landlords

Between squatters and rent control, Golden State property owners are under siege.

Jun 30 2024
John Ketcham New York’s Housing Hell

Instead of punishing landlords with inefficiency and uncertainty, housing courts should provide for a fair, predictable, and timely eviction process.

Jun 25 2024

From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Which Way the University?

A symposium on higher education in the United States

Fighting the Oldest Hate

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Symposium: A New Anticrime Agenda

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

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The Spotlight

Heather Mac Donald The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard

White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.

Dec 09 2021
Charles F. McElwee Chain Migration Comes to Hazleton

The working-class Pennsylvania city is struggling to adapt to a heavy influx of Hispanics from New York.

Steven Malanga Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource

Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?

Ian Penman Grave New World

Ernst Jünger’s unblinking literary vision captured an age of technology, political upheaval, and destruction.

James Piereson The Playbook for Lawfare

Watergate and Nixon’s resignation, 50 years on

Aug 07 2024
Lance Morrow Profane Reality, Sacred Memory

Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination

Peter C. Myers Black Lives Matter Comes to the Classroom

Activists bring the movement’s spirit and ideology into a growing number of secondary and even elementary schools.

Theodore Kupfer College Football’s Twilight

The sport as we know it is changing forever.

Sep 02 2022
Christos A. Makridis, Morris M. Kleiner License to Work

States are waking up to the high costs that occupational-licensing laws impose on their workers and economies.

Feb 23 2024
Edward L. Glaeser The War on Work—and How to End It

An agenda to address joblessness, the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century

Steven Malanga Dirty Jobs, Good Pay

Reality TV star Mike Rowe and others seek to revive the American work ethic.

Kay S. Hymowitz Gen Z’s Gender Stalemate

Young men and women are increasingly divided.

Heather Mac Donald Classical Music’s Suicide Pact (Part 1)

Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera companies, and conductors are abandoning the Western canon.

Heather Mac Donald Classical Music’s Suicide Pact (Part 2)

Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera companies, and conductors are abandoning the Western canon.