The abysmal student achievement results reported in the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, the annual measure by the National Assessment of Education Progress, triggered the usual alarm bells. Teachers’ ...
California’s proposed wealth tax hasn’t technically made it onto the ballot yet, and already the state’s three wealthiest taxpayers have publicly announced their departures. With just these three ...
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, handed down Wednesday morning, is a big deal. The majority’s ...
When the Supreme Court, in 2023, banned the use of racial preferences in university admissions, observers expected the number of black and Hispanic freshmen on elite campuses to fall and the number of ...
One-fifth of global oil trade transits the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic risk that, given current events, has shattered ...
Over the weekend, another anti-ICE protester, Alex Pretti, was shot and killed during a struggle with federal immigration agents in Minneapolis—the second such death in just over two weeks. Renee Good ...
The pontiff is right to warn against hatred and rash recourse to war—but his tendency toward a kind of functional pacifism ...
You can’t blame some Republicans for being skeptical of any bill offering legal status to those who entered the United States illegally. But conservatives risk squandering a rare opportunity if they ...
You may not notice it right away, but an unsettling quiet settles over a neighborhood when children disappear. Playgrounds feel empty, fewer strollers pass by, and fewer parents shout “stop” at little ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin’s new proposal, which revolves around the state Pass Through Entity ...
In his November victory speech, New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, observed that “a great New Yorker”—his vanquished opponent’s father, Mario Cuomo—“once said that while you campaign in poetry ...