Like everywhere else in New York City, the U.S. Open sits in a haze of pot smoke. The players are noticing.

Bottom-up programs and small-scale development spurred the city’s comeback, but recent policies threaten to undo that progress.

High school graduates should be able to demonstrate mastery of the academic content and skills necessary to lead productive lives and fulfill the obligations of citizenship.

If left unreformed, Good Cause Eviction could shrink rental supply, reduce quality, and increase blight.

The city’s next leader must support the NYPD and preside over crime reductions.

New videos show that the American Medical Association president does not understand evidence-based medicine and defers to untrustworthy colleagues.

To build the energy systems needed to fuel growth, the U.S. will need to weigh choices and tradeoffs.

Trump’s executive order is noble but toothless. Constitutional change would be popular and right.

If all three stay in the race, the socialist candidate is almost certain to become New York City’s next mayor.

The president’s transformation of the federal judiciary owes much to the conservative legal organization, despite his recent criticisms.

A new book contrasts China’s speed with America’s red tape.


The storm 20 years ago offered a glimpse into the country’s future.

The Canadian institution is renowned as the birthplace of evidence-based medicine, but some researchers seem to be bowing to pressure from advocates of “gender-affirming care.”

For Robin Westman and other unstable people, apocalyptic messaging around transgender identity provided a script justifying violence.

Three simple proposals would undo decades of misuse of the law.

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The socialist Democrat’s sweeping proposals will run up against familiar political headwinds.

Only by embracing the future can cities escape the stagnation of the present.

A dubious wire-fraud case illustrates how far the Trump administration still has to go to stamp out racialism.

The city’s next leader must support the NYPD and preside over crime reductions.

New videos show that the American Medical Association president does not understand evidence-based medicine and defers to untrustworthy colleagues.

To build the energy systems needed to fuel growth, the U.S. will need to weigh choices and tradeoffs.

Trump’s executive order is noble but toothless. Constitutional change would be popular and right.

If all three stay in the race, the socialist candidate is almost certain to become New York City’s next mayor.

The president’s transformation of the federal judiciary owes much to the conservative legal organization, despite his recent criticisms.

A new book contrasts China’s speed with America’s red tape.


The storm 20 years ago offered a glimpse into the country’s future.

The Canadian institution is renowned as the birthplace of evidence-based medicine, but some researchers seem to be bowing to pressure from advocates of “gender-affirming care.”

For Robin Westman and other unstable people, apocalyptic messaging around transgender identity provided a script justifying violence.

Three simple proposals would undo decades of misuse of the law.

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The socialist Democrat’s sweeping proposals will run up against familiar political headwinds.

Only by embracing the future can cities escape the stagnation of the present.

A dubious wire-fraud case illustrates how far the Trump administration still has to go to stamp out racialism.

The city’s next leader must support the NYPD and preside over crime reductions.

New videos show that the American Medical Association president does not understand evidence-based medicine and defers to untrustworthy colleagues.

To build the energy systems needed to fuel growth, the U.S. will need to weigh choices and tradeoffs.

Trump’s executive order is noble but toothless. Constitutional change would be popular and right.

Gotham’s next mayor must retain Jessica Tisch, hire more officers, and halt the plan to close Rikers Island.

The NYPD needs a clear directive: the public and city government want cops to take a more preventative approach to mental illness-related disorder.

With deteriorating quality of life and high housing costs pushing New Yorkers to leave, the city's value proposition must improve.

Getting control of the city’s finances will require confronting labor on benefit costs and resistance to innovation.

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

Without building a talent pipeline to rival that of the DEI cartel, reformers’ efforts to fix universities are bound to fall short.

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

Faculty believe that Donald Trump is Hitler, but their university allegedly oversaw a system of identity-based spoils.

Nodutdol has supporters in academia and among far-left activist groups.

The former congressman founded and served as an unlicensed principal of an academy that pushed radical ideology and yielded dismal student outcomes.

Internal search committee documents reveal the university’s troubling hiring practices.

The nation’s largest oil refiner added racial hiring goals to its bonus compensation formula while eliminating a safety metric.

The state’s Department of Health Services is shuttering a beneficial program based on dubious evidence.

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

Internal documents reveal how administrators use “diversity checks” to influence the hiring process and engage in discrimination.

The university’s FIRST program mandated “diverse” lists of finalists.

The Department of Justice should investigate for a potential violation of the Civil Rights Act.

The California governor attended a luxury wine-tasting during the recent riots.

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

Without building a talent pipeline to rival that of the DEI cartel, reformers’ efforts to fix universities are bound to fall short.

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

Faculty believe that Donald Trump is Hitler, but their university allegedly oversaw a system of identity-based spoils.

Nodutdol has supporters in academia and among far-left activist groups.

The former congressman founded and served as an unlicensed principal of an academy that pushed radical ideology and yielded dismal student outcomes.

Internal search committee documents reveal the university’s troubling hiring practices.

The nation’s largest oil refiner added racial hiring goals to its bonus compensation formula while eliminating a safety metric.

The state’s Department of Health Services is shuttering a beneficial program based on dubious evidence.

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

Internal documents reveal how administrators use “diversity checks” to influence the hiring process and engage in discrimination.

The university’s FIRST program mandated “diverse” lists of finalists.

The Department of Justice should investigate for a potential violation of the Civil Rights Act.

The California governor attended a luxury wine-tasting during the recent riots.

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

Without building a talent pipeline to rival that of the DEI cartel, reformers’ efforts to fix universities are bound to fall short.

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.


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For too long, policymakers and businesses have made decisions on the belief that costs don’t matter. Reality is reasserting itself.

Progressive policies threaten a new era of urban dysfunction.

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

Today’s state hospital patients sit idle on massive grounds designed to sustain meaningful work.

Replacing cops with social workers for mental-health emergencies is fraught with risk.

Humane institutionalization can help the mentally ill and protect society.

In Louisiana v. Callais, the justices will have a chance to restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act to its original purpose.

Democratic attacks on Trump’s census proposals ignore the problems caused by drawing congressional districts according to residents, not citizens.

In a nakedly political ruling, the state’s highest court has given the Democratic-controlled legislature another chance to draw a gerrymandered congressional map.
