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Their pursuit of levies on net worth already have support beyond California.

After decades of declining enrollment, school choice and renewed interest in classical education are creating opportunities for expansion.

As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.

The mayor’s tax hikes and budgetary tricks are pushing the Windy City deeper into a fiscal crisis.

ALPRs have helped rescue dozens of children.

Last week’s scares show that artificial intelligence holds promise for both attackers and defenders.

The GOP has abandoned the Centennial State, but a looming left-wing civil war might reopen the frontier.

We invested hundreds of millions in it.

A new Manhattan Institute analysis

Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint.

Congressional proposals to tax large language models revive a failed 1990s approach that could have slowed internet-driven economic growth.

Professional leagues, states, and public opinion are turning against legalization.

Concrete Evidence

A new Manhattan Institute analysis shows a high number of children and teens, particularly girls, receiving transgender-related diagnoses in the state from 2017 to 2023.

It’s unsafe in any form.

In claiming a campus rape crisis, the university’s students are egged on by radical professors who betray the cause of reason for an ideology of victimhood.

Manhattan Institute focus groups offer a clue.

Justice Samuel Alito’s new book, So Ordered, presents a compelling case for originalism grounded in practical judgment rather than abstract theory.

Schools need transparency, litigation, and accountability to ensure safe, successful learning environments.

They don’t need to wait for Washington to take “gas-station heroin” off store shelves.

A Maryland policy experiment shows why the proposal would meet resistance in practice.

What Americans consider corrupt and what the law prohibits aren’t always the same.

Yes, my neighborhood is built on a Superfund site.

Twenty metro Detroit voters explain why frustration with Donald Trump hasn’t settled their choice for Senate.

Eighteen years later, not a single mile of track has been laid.

Socialists have a larger presence on Chicago’s city council than on that of any other large American city.

A bipartisan deal would make it easier to build.

The state’s high-speed rail project sunk more than $677 million on environmental paperwork, benefiting well-connected contractors.

He still wants to focus on affordability.

Its argument was built on a theory of deception that makes little sense.

Economist Robert Hall’s proposal would simplify collection without discouraging investments.

The mayor still wants to focus on affordability, but he won’t be able to dodge the public-safety issue forever.

The Supreme Court should not let a difficult asylum case weaken the law against supporting terrorist organizations.

Their willingness to speak out, even amid intense opposition, helps challenge the illusion of consensus on campus.

They’re becoming high-turnout battlegrounds.

Under Secretary Lonnie Bunch, the museums have drastically fewer visitors, especially the National Museum of American History.

The NYPD commissioner is effective—which is why the Democratic Socialists of America wants Mayor Mamdani to replace her.

Concrete Evidence

Reducing penalties for drug possession and theft resulted in more addiction, homelessness, and public disorder.

Zero tolerance is the best response.

Once considered sleepily predictable, races to select states’ top jurists have turned fiercely competitive—and expensive.

Mariana Mazzucato’s vision would empower global institutions and bureaucrats to direct economic life.

Fueled by online discourse, rationalized with everything from group hatred to radical ideology, extremist violence should be given no quarter.

A conversation on Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us from Taking the Chances We Need to Take

A recent panel examined how to treat fat patients “more ethically.”

Some states let schools socially transition kids in secret.

A Canadian judge’s ruling could impose drug legalization across the country.

Three years after Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,000 people, extremists gather to celebrate the terror group’s “martyrs.”

It normalizes sexual violence and reshapes sexual behavior, with far-reaching social consequences.

Good policy decisions could enable America to keep scaling compute while minimizing costs.