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How Prop. 36 Can Make California Safer and Healthier
Yesterday, California passed Proposition 36, the “Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative.” The measure, which rolls back some of Proposition 47’s soft-on-crime ...
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A Redder Big Apple
New York may have gone to Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, but New Yorkers have never agreed more with President-elect Donald Trump than they do right now. Statewide, Harris received 56 ...
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New York’s Youth-Crime Plague
In a July press conference, New York City mayor Eric Adams painted an upbeat picture of public safety. “When you have six straight months of a decrease in crime,” the progressive former NYPD captain ...
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Reparations Forever
New York City recently took a small step forward in correcting historical wrongs—at least, that’s what lawmakers would have you believe. The city council has passed a legislative package that would ...
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Never Let a Crisis End
New York City’s perennial housing crisis—the city has regularly declared a housing “emergency” since 1971—is back on the city council’s agenda, with two proposals to address it. On the surface, the ...
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Proposal 1’s Stealth Radicalism
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 ...
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The Endarkenment
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 ...
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No, You’re Not Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree
The arrest of an illegal immigrant for the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley a few weeks before President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address ignited a political firestorm.
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Leveraging the Culture War
Wokeness, as I define in my new book, The Third Awokening, is “the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender ...
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A Campaign Against Websites
The first website was still a year away when Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. In the years since, plaintiffs’ attorneys, sympathetic judges, and the Department of Justice ...
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A Democratic Reckoning on “Gender Identity”?
The Democrats’ catastrophic performance on November 5 showed their vulnerability on a number of key issues, but none perhaps ...