The following is an edited version of remarks prepared by Scott K. H. Bessent for the Toward a New Supply-Side: The Future of ...

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

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

Most Republicans are understandably elated by the 2024 election results: the GOP will soon control the White House and both chambers of Congress. Exit polls, which showed comparatively strong ...

New Yorkers are increasingly worried about the scourge of migrant crime, from the heartrending murder of Laken Riley, the Georgia student killed by a man whose first address in America was in New York ...

The University of Michigan may soon end its considerable investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion—news that has roused faculty activism. Tabbye Chavous, the university’s chief diversity officer, ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

John Ketcham is a legal policy fellow and director of Cities Policy at the Manhattan Institute. His areas of expertise include housing, local elections, infrastructure, parental rights, and more, ...

As the incoming Trump administration looks to make good on its promise to restart deportations, migrants are expected to seek refuge in “sanctuary” cities. Leaders in these predominantly Democratic ...