New York Governor Kathy Hochul has spent much of her four and a half years in office facing a time bomb left by her predecessor: drastic, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the ...

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Lawmakers in Arizona and Utah have introduced bills toughening penalties for civil terrorism—illegal activities undertaken to achieve political goals through intimidation or coercion. Blocking a road, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court.

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 ...

But Colorado has become a cautionary tale of what happens when Democrats and Golden State refugees capture a state’s politics. The high housing prices, demographic stagnation, and business weakness in ...