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

Six days before the election, the statistician Nate Silver issued a warning to his 3.4 million followers on X: “Just Say No ...

The University of Michigan Board of Regents is considering defunding the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion office, according to the faculty senate chair. If adopted, the reform would mark a ...

Kennedy Jr. nor Donald Trump can save Americans from the consequences of their own eating behavior. For several months, a ...

Many anthropologists place social-justice ideology over verifiable facts, from denying the sex binary to spinning false narratives of mass child graves in Indian schools to recasting “indigenous ...

Despite claiming years ago to have “the best words,” President-elect Donald Trump is something less than a flawless orator. Consider his remarks during an on-stage appearance this past summer at the ...

There is an old saw that, in America, every great cause begins as a movement and eventually degenerates into a racket. This is certainly true of the past decade’s most fashionable cause: “diversity, ...

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services has the press corps in the D.C.–New York corridor flummoxed. The Washington Post ...

Because of the train station, the intersection of Newkirk Avenue and Marlborough Road is busier than most in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood. Described by real-estate agents as a “secret suburb” ...

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have permanently rearranged the world’s cities. A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assembles data from an astonishing ...