When the Baltimore Sun, once among the country’s most respected big-city papers, fell into the hands of conservative television mogul David D. Smith in 2024, media elites reacted with what NPR’s David ...

A Southern California overpass “for everything from monarch butterflies to mountain lions” is overdue and over budget.

Imagine a single policy change that could lower food prices, free up land for construction or conservation, improve the environment, cut greenhouse-gas emissions, and reduce fuel costs. You’d think ...

After a tumultuous decade marked by civic unrest, violent crime, and economic decline, St. Louis may be eyeing a resurgence. Accelerated partly by last year’s deadly tornado, th ...

Should Albany authorize the city to increase any tax rates, Mamdani will insist that doing so is the city’s only morally and ...

In an era of partisan gridlock, Republicans and Democrats have found something to agree on: America needs more housing. A ...

The Dream Keeper Initiative was founded by former San Francisco Mayor London Breed in 2021, fulfilling her promise to redirect police funding to “the African American community” in the aftermath of ...

President Jim Davis’s decision to consolidate four “studies” departments is about more than just fiscal prudence.

Today, we’re looking at California Governor Gavin Newsom’s costly bridge project, the negative effects of the Family First Prevention Services Act, and the life and career of Judge E. Grady Jolly.

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Soon after, the DSA International Committee (IC) began issuing condemnations of U.S. policy on Cuba. In September 2022, the IC dispatched its first official delegation to the island. In October 2025, ...

Is the end of wokeness near? Most college professors would say no. But signs of wokeness’s retreat in the U.S. corporate sector are unmistakable. One recent settlement in particular may hasten the end ...