No American city has a worse public pension problem than Chicago. It carries more pension debt than 43 U.S. states and is ...

Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on immigration, especially selection, assimilation, and highly ...

A new study finds that headlines can turn the public against legitimate uses of force.

Hannah E. Meyers is a fellow and director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute currently on leave to serve as Assistant Commissioner for Criminal Justice Policy at the New York ...

Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adopted many of the policies contributing to the Golden State’s decline. Not long ago, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon were widely hailed as states with bright ...

Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is also a contributing editor of City Journal, where his writing explores a ...

John Tierney is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. Tierney has significant experience in print and media, recently joining City Journal after more ...

A country whose citizens no longer believe in its core goodness will struggle to sustain itself.

Mark P. Mills is a contributing editor at City Journal, executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, ...

Leor Sapir is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Program on Constitutional Government ...

Zohran Mamdani’s marquis campaign promise is a four-year rent freeze for New York City’s 1 million rent-regulated apartments. His promise has drawn substantial criticism on pragmatic grounds, with ...

The 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters are the closest thing America has to a generic labor union. The Teamsters, who originally represented horse-team drivers, no longer stand ...