Today begins a new era,” declared Zohran Mamdani upon his swearing in yesterday as New York City’s 112th mayor. “Beginning ...

The L.A. Department of Water and Power had kept the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir empty for nearly a year, contributing to dry ...

In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...

Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika differs from downtown libraries in America by its near-total absence of homelessness.

In May, the Supreme Court managed to resolve the first big case about religious charter schools without deciding anything. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the justices split ...

My family and I were living in London, in the spring of 1973, when I had to make the trip personally to purchase tickets for Tom Stoppard’s play, Jumpers. It was the play’s first performance, with ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

In the wake of Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, many observers assumed that the massacre would release a wave of sympathy for the Jewish state and for Jews around the world.