On New Years Day outside New York’s City Hall, Zohran K. Mamdani delivered an inaugural speech demonstrating the self-contradictions that brought him to office. The biggest such dilemma for Mamdani: ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Few of President Trump’s second-term actions have proved as controversial as his Day One executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. Like much else that he has done and said, the order, ...

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 ...