Because of the train station, the intersection of Newkirk Avenue and Marlborough Road is busier than most in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood. Described by real-estate agents as a “secret suburb” ...

In response to political and fiscal pressures, and with crime rates well below their 1990s peak, jails and prisons are ...

The University of Michigan Board of Regents is considering defunding the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion office, according to the faculty senate chair. If adopted, the reform would mark a ...

Many anthropologists place social-justice ideology over verifiable facts, from denying the sex binary to spinning false narratives of mass child graves in Indian schools to recasting “indigenous ...

Despite claiming years ago to have “the best words,” President-elect Donald Trump is something less than a flawless orator. Consider his remarks during an on-stage appearance this past summer at the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have permanently rearranged the world’s cities. A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assembles data from an astonishing ...

The 2024 election was a referendum on a wide range of issues, but there’s no doubt that increasing domestic fossil-fuel production—“energy dominance,” as Donald Trump now calls it—was on the ballot ...

In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition secured a realignment of American politics. The Republican victory on November 5 affords the opportunity for a new realignment: a Grand New ...

There is an old saw that, in America, every great cause begins as a movement and eventually degenerates into a racket. This is certainly true of the past decade’s most fashionable cause: “diversity, ...

Right after Lina Khan was confirmed to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission, the Biden administration announced that (surprise!) she would chair the agency. This bait-and-switch was a shameless ...

It’s been a rough few years for the Ivy League, whose schools have seen campus unrest, anti-Semitism, and hostility to free speech, alongside the shouting down of a federal judge, plagiarism, and ...