Mamdani came off as an economic and fiscal fabulist, but at least he seemed politically astute. He was the only candidate who focused on rising costs, and he was authentic and fun. So the 34-year-old ...

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 ...

The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.

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

This essay first appeared on City Journal ’s Substack.

According to a new Pew Research poll, nearly 60 percent of teens believe that students frequently use artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT and Copilot to cheat in school. Educators have ...

No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel expecting a cheerful ending, and her latest, A Better Life, will not disillusion readers in this respect. An expert in the depiction and skewering of middle-class ...

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 ...

How bad was President Trump’s loss last week at the Supreme Court in the tariffs case? Really bad. How does this defeat compare with other losses suffered by presidents at the Court? There is no ...

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, ...

The public scandals and internal disagreements engulfing the Labour Party provide an all-pervasive soundtrack to life in Britain today. But it's not just the governing party that is stuck in a ...