California Governor Gavin Newsom suggested during a recent CNN appearance that to win again, Democrats need to become “more culturally normal.” In response to this obvious point, far-left commentators ...

This essay first appeared on City Journal ’s Substack.

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

I was heading home on the 4 train with my son after a Yankees game. It had been a picture-perfect New York day—sunshine, baseball, hot dogs, and family. During the seventh-inning stretch, the crowd ...

Few of President Trump’s second-term actions have proved as controversial as his Day One executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. Like much else that he has done and said, the order, ...

Migration from California has helped change Colorado from a libertarian-inflected reddish state into a solid-blue one. And now blue Colorado is starting to turn into California. Not so long ago, ...

One of the most persistent myths since October 7, 2023, is that college students organically gravitated toward militant pro-Palestinian activism. On those campuses that saw the most aggressive ...

Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, ...

Americans are using more and more medical care, but the need to pay for it all is a drag on employment in other sectors.

Every year, schools invest immense sums of money in sports programs to cultivate the performance of students who show extraordinary athletic promise. In the 2024–2025 school year, more than 8 million ...