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 ...

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have permanently rearranged the world’s cities. A new study, published in the Proceedings of ...

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

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

Government agencies should choose which research projects to fund based on merit, not ideology. But my investigation into U.S. Department of Education grants reveals that administrators prioritize ...

The outbreak of anti-immigrant mob violence in England this summer, in which rioters went as far as to set fire to buildings with immigrants in them—for example, an attack on a Holiday Inn near ...

In his memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recounted his days as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s.

“Once one starts to think about” economic growth, “it is hard to think about anything else.” Those words, from the late economist Robert Lucas, explain why we’re so fascinated by international ...

Wokeness, as I define in my new book, The Third Awokening, is “the making sacred of historically marginalized race, gender ...

In his novels and nonfiction, Philip Roth frequently described how the men and women of his parent’s generation toiled to ...