But inmates told us a different story. For some, the devices have become personal sex machines. In the words of one inmate, ...

The Red Pill (TRP) comes from The Matrix, in which Neo swallows the red pill and sees reality as it is. Applied to ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as an innocuous Muslim civil rights group—a reputation it reinforces with litigation and claims of anti-Muslim bigotry. But the group ...

California’s proposed wealth tax hasn’t technically made it onto the ballot yet, and already the state’s three wealthiest taxpayers have publicly announced their departures. With just these three ...

How did Carter cases, intended as a backstop for the public school system in a limited number of instances, come to cost New York City over a billion dollars? My new Manhattan Institute brief shows ...

Chicago is reviving civics education, but not in a way that aims to nurture informed, patriotic citizens. The Chicago ...

California’s welfare machine is bleeding billions a year. And, as we recently reported, few programs are more troubled than the state’s $30 billion, Medi-Cal backed In-Home Supportive Services Program ...

A school choice revolution has swept America. Following pandemic-era school closures and culture wars, choice proponents have made unprecedented gains at the state and federal levels. Today, 34 states ...

When the Supreme Court, in 2023, banned the use of racial preferences in university admissions, observers expected the number of black and Hispanic freshmen on elite campuses to fall and the number of ...

On the campaign trail, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pledged to increase the city’s minimum hourly wage, from $16.50 to $30, by 2030. The increase would be phased in, with automatic annual hikes ...

The most striking aspect of President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) isn’t that unsavory aid recipients have misused taxpayer dollars.

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