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.

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 ...

When did New York become the city that sleeps? The shift began at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the city forced restaurants and bars to close. Nearly 1,000 never reopened, and five years ...

Ever since Portugal enacted drug decriminalization in 2001, reformers have argued that North America should follow suit. The Portuguese saw precipitous declines in overdoses and blood-borne infections ...