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After decades of failure, the tide is turning in the battle over how American children are taught to read. School districts had long invested in methods that encouraged students to “guess” unknown ...

Brian C. Anderson is the editor of City Journal, the cultural and political quarterly published by the Manhattan Institute. He also serves as host of City Journal’s “10 Blocks” podcast, delving into ...

President Trump’s threats to put a 25 percent tariff on most Canadian and Mexican imports—now on hold for 30 days, pending negotiations with both countries—have overturned the reigning orthodoxy in ...

The secret to Washington is that everything is run by twentysomethings—from congressional staffers and judicial clerks to the crowds of advisors arriving with each new administration. A few of these ...

This week, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The order instructs the Departments of Justice and Education to undo Obama- and Biden-era policies that ...

If one phrase should be planted firmly in the minds of every police executive in the country, it’s this: public order matters. In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department incorporated this ...

Every era has its grifters, gurus, quacks, and frauds. This is an American tradition, from the snake oil salesmen to the pyramid-schemers to the New Age prophets of the twentieth century. One might be ...

Renu Mukherjee is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Mukherjee’s research focuses on education, affirmative action, public interest groups, and political and policy attitudes among racial and ethnic ...

Universities occupy a uniquely privileged position in American life. They enjoy tremendous prestige and billions in public ...

On Wednesday, New York legislators considered mental-health-policy proposals in the state executive budget. Governor Kathy Hochul touted these reforms in last month’s State of the State address, ...