Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s new paper in support of the measure raises concerns that could doom the proposal in the courts.

Last August, a dust storm swept across northern Utah, crossed the Great Salt Lake, and kept going, carrying toxic sediment more than 50 miles through heavily populated areas. Buildings disappeared ...

Medicaid was established in 1965 as a system of federal matching funds for states to deliver health care to low-income Americans. Initially, all states paid directly for medical services, but they ...

It took a congressional subpoena to get Steve Descano, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax, Virginia, and a proud social ...

During last year’s mayoral campaign, Zohran K. Mamdani came off as an economic and fiscal fabulist, but at least he seemed politically astute. He was the only candidate who focused on rising costs, ...

The establishment political consensus has long held that it’s impossible to rein in illegal immigration until Congress passes “comprehensive immigration reform.” The Congressional Budget Office has ...

Harvard has a plagiarism problem. At the beginning of the year, Claudine Gay resigned as university president following a plagiarism scandal. Weeks later, the Washington Free Beacon published a report ...

Continuing an annual winter ritual, the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn have announced permanent Catholic school closures for the coming year. The number so far is small: five in ...

The state’s cap-and-trade program is a slush fund for ideological programs, including $49 million for farmworker “weatherization.” “We only require an ID,” Velores said. “It doesn’t need to be from ...