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, ...

Ten years ago, New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones explained her decision to enroll her daughter, Najya, in a segregated, high-poverty Brooklyn public school, P.S. 307, despite having ...

These changes included the deployment of railroads, the proliferation of the press (due to the invention of low-cost ...

A political memoir traces the ascendant far Left’s roots in the Democratic establishment.

Many observers are struggling to keep up with the new Trump administration’s dizzying pace of executive orders and policy initiatives, so it’s no surprise that some big ideas have fallen by the ...

In labor politics, 2026 continues to be a grueling year. Nationwide, numerous large private-sector union contracts expire later this summer, including those covering 20,000 Verizon workers in the ...

The 2020 exodus to Miami went the second route. Exiles from New York, Greenwich, and Far Hills arrived to escape state income ...

The proposed solution makes little sense in Seattle. The Emerald City is one of America’s largest retail markets and one of ...

A new study challenges the popular claim that medical interventions improve trans-identifying people’s mental health. Rather, the study argues, nonmedical factors like social support and coping style ...

Experts testifying before Congress don’t typically start by describing the insights they’ve gained from a backed-up toilet. But when Reality TV star Mike Rowe appeared before the Senate committee on ...

San Francisco, California – It’s Tuesday morning at Little Learners Daycare in downtown San Francisco. Teacher Wendy herds bright-eyed toddlers, amped up after playtime in the courtyard, back inside.