John Ketcham is a legal policy fellow and director of Cities Policy at the Manhattan Institute. His areas of expertise include housing, local elections, infrastructure, parental rights, and more, ...

Charles F. McElwee is the founding editor of RealClearPennsylvania. He was previously an editor at City Journal. His writing has appeared at City Journal, RealClearPolitics, The Atlantic, the ...

George L. Kelling, who died in 2019, was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of ...

The outbreak of anti-immigrant mob violence in England this summer, in which rioters went as far as to set fire to buildings with immigrants in them—for example, an attack on a Holiday Inn near ...

Peter Reinharz is a contributing editor of City Journal, where he writes about courts, criminal justice, forensic evidence, and urban planning, and a special advisor to the Applied Science Foundation ...

In his memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recounted his days as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s.

Government agencies should choose which research projects to fund based on merit, not ideology. But my investigation into U.S. Department of Education grants reveals that administrators prioritize ...

“Once one starts to think about” economic growth, “it is hard to think about anything else.” Those words, from the late economist Robert Lucas, explain why we’re so fascinated by international ...

As the incoming Trump administration looks to make good on its promise to restart deportations, migrants are expected to seek refuge in “sanctuary” cities. Leaders in these predominantly Democratic ...

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have permanently rearranged the world’s cities. A new study, published in the Proceedings of ...

In response to political and fiscal pressures, and with crime rates well below their 1990s peak, jails and prisons are ...

Many anthropologists place social-justice ideology over verifiable facts, from denying the sex binary to spinning false narratives of mass child graves in Indian schools to recasting “indigenous ...