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

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, ...

Six days before the election, the statistician Nate Silver issued a warning to his 3.4 million followers on X: “Just Say No ...

Kennedy Jr. nor Donald Trump can save Americans from the consequences of their own eating behavior. For several months, a ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services has the press corps in the D.C.–New York corridor flummoxed. The Washington Post ...

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 ...

When she was a 16-year-old student at Avenues, a private school in New York, Olivia Eve Gross started what was probably America’s first high school law review. Now a recent graduate of the University ...

Asked whether she could provide a definition of the word “woman,” Ketanji Brown Jackson, Supreme Court nominee, magna cum laude at Harvard and graduate of Harvard Law, seemed perplexed: “I’m not a ...

Yesterday, a madman on a stabbing spree mortally wounded three New Yorkers, who succumbed to their injuries. According to the New York Post and New York Daily News, the alleged perpetrator is a ...