Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have offered competing plans—each distortionary in its own way.

Donald Trump’s appeal among working-class voters is neutralizing Democrats’ traditional advantage with unions.

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of ...

Recently, in an idle moment, I stumbled on a superb piece by Joseph Epstein, “Joan Didion From the Couch,” which reminded me of how the engineering of reputations in the literary world often betrays ...

For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined ...

Every nation has an operating ideology. In a country that hews faithfully to the principles embedded in its written constitution, that ideology is overt. In a tyrannical government, however, it is ...

Going to Patchogue, by Thomas McGonigle (Tough Poets Press, 260 pp., $26.46) A novel as complex as Patchogue, of course, is anything but straightforward. Essentially unclassifiable, it is part novel, ...

The mainstream media has recently trumpeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimate that violent crime fell 3 percent nationally from 2022 to 2023. They have largely ignored, however, the ...

Many applauded in January 2024 when Utah governor Spencer Cox signed HB 261 into law. The bill’s backers hoped that it would ban mandatory DEI statements in hiring, diversity trainings, and offices ...

This week, the New York Daily News editorial board and Governor Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to vote yes on Proposal 1, a ballot measure that would amend the New York State Constitution to expand ...

Ray Domanico is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His career has spanned the public and non-profit sectors, in research and advocacy roles. Most recently, Domanico was director of education ...