Today begins a new era,” declared Zohran Mamdani upon his swearing in yesterday as New York City’s 112th mayor. “Beginning ...

The L.A. Department of Water and Power had kept the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir empty for nearly a year, contributing to dry ...

Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika differs from downtown libraries in America by its near-total absence of homelessness.

In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...

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

My family and I were living in London, in the spring of 1973, when I had to make the trip personally to purchase tickets for Tom Stoppard’s play, Jumpers. It was the play’s first performance, with ...

In May, the Supreme Court managed to resolve the first big case about religious charter schools without deciding anything. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the justices split ...

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 ...

In the wake of Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, many observers assumed that the massacre would release a wave of sympathy for the Jewish state and for Jews around the world.

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 ...

In September, a federal judge ruled that a Virginia school board violated students’ First Amendment rights by reinstating the name “Stonewall Jackson High School.” While Judge Michael F. Urbanski ...