John Ketcham is a legal policy fellow and director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute. His areas of expertise include housing, local elections, infrastructure, parental rights, and more, ...

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the New York Times bestselling author of The War on Cops. She was honored with ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in ...

A few weeks ago, my friend Maralyn Beck, a child welfare advocate in New Mexico, received an urgent text message from a 22-year-old woman who had recently aged out of the foster-care system. She was ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “freeze the rent” pledge for New York City’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments was his best-known campaign initiative. But making good on that promise may require him ...

Rogue Justice: The Rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel, by Yonatan Green (Academica Press, 698 pp., $40) Yonatan “Johnny” Green’s Rogue Justice is the book Americans needed when they watched, bemused ...

On the night of October 23, 2020, Washington, D.C. police officers Terence Sutton, Andrew Zabavsky, and Cory Novick pursued a suspect fleeing on a motor scooter. The suspect cut through an alleyway ...

Reading New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “LGBTQIA+” platform, I was reminded of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s recent essay on the perils of “moral certainty.” The rhetoric of moral absolutism ...

Far from tamping down the problem, the Anthony Albanese government has been viciously maligning Israel since October 7, 2023.