Mamdani came off as an economic and fiscal fabulist, but at least he seemed politically astute. He was the only candidate who ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

This essay first appeared on City Journal ’s Substack.

According to a new Pew Research poll, nearly 60 percent of teens believe that students frequently use artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT and Copilot to cheat in school. Educators have ...

Lawmakers in Arizona and Utah have introduced bills toughening penalties for civil terrorism—illegal activities undertaken to achieve political goals through intimidation or coercion. Blocking a road, ...

During the Super Bowl, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took heat on two fronts: one, for owning the team that lost, and two, for airing an ad that quietly infuriated a large portion of the ...

Few issues matter more to voters than food costs. Nearly 90 percent of Americans report stress about grocery prices, and more than half call it a “major” source of anxiety. So it was perhaps ...

No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel expecting a cheerful ending, and her latest, A Better Life, will not disillusion readers in this respect. An expert in the depiction and skewering of middle-class ...

But Colorado has become a cautionary tale of what happens when Democrats and Golden State refugees capture a state’s politics. The high housing prices, demographic stagnation, and business weakness in ...

From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court.