This month’s return of the Supreme Court after a long summer recess coincides with the Court’s reinsertion into national political debates amid a presidential election campaign. Though the new term ...

Asked whether she could provide a definition of the word “woman,” Ketanji Brown Jackson, Supreme Court nominee, magna cum laude at Harvard and graduate of Harvard Law, seemed perplexed: “I’m not a ...

San Francisco, the magical California city that locals cherished and visitors marveled at, has elected a new mayor. London Breed is out. Daniel Lurie is in. It’s tough to oust an incumbent but even ...

Apparently, I work for a hate group. I learned that this spring when the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Do No Harm, the medical nonprofit that employs me, as one of “more than 1,500 hard right ...

One of the most promising developments in higher education today is the rise of civic-education colleges within public universities, particularly in red states. Notable examples include the School of ...

At Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan last Sunday, Donald Trump characterized Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 presidential race, as “a very low IQ individual.” At the ...

You can’t say we were not warned. In the final days of the presidential campaign, the New York Times, barely staving off a nervous breakdown, is pulling out all the stops in its effort to keep Donald ...

Regardless of Americans’ preference for seeing each other’s faces and breathing in fresh air, many public health officials are still fond of masks mandates. Accordingly, almost five years after ...

This week, the New York Daily News editorial board and Governor Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to vote yes on Proposal 1, a ballot measure that would amend the New York State Constitution to expand ...

For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined ...

The self-styled capital of the American West faces a governance crisis that should alarm urbanists and municipal bondholders alike. Los Angeles teeters on the brink of fiscal emergency, not from some ...

Hurricane Helene left over 230 dead, some 350 missing, and hundreds of thousands without power. The estimated property damage has eclipsed $47 billion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been ...