A little-noticed detail in a news item about the California state government budget, dated January 10: “California has $16.9 billion in reserves. Some $10.9 billion of that is in the state’s rainy-day ...

Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund? How Policy Decisions Exacerbated the Devastating Los Angeles Wildfires A Timeline of Mayor Karen Bass’s ...

Equity’ advocates have long insisted on a connection between the U.S. military’s efficacy and its diversity. The rest of the country is unconvinced.

It purportedly found that people, particularly singles, are moving away from states with strong pro-life laws. Specifically, the study claims that 13 states that effectively banned abortion ...

I expected to be wowed by Robert Eggers’s remake of the vampire tale, but I was merely entertained.

Without intending it, perhaps without quite seeing it, the DOGE is setting itself up to be the subject of endless conspiracies to come, on all sides of our politics. Consider this paragraph from the ...

New York City estimated that it spent $1.45 billion in Fiscal Year 2023 providing food, shelter, and aid to migrants.

If these little English girls endured torture for years, then writers can manage the mere act of reporting on it. And readers must not look away.

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of the U.S. Navy An Alternative to Buying Greenland That Could Actually Work A Sorry President The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with ...

It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. A progressive columnist in The Guardian writes about how she is coming to understand that human life has intrinsic dignity, but she doesn’t quite ...

Trump’s Sentence ‘Doesn’t Matter,’ but the Conviction Does Nothing in Trump’s Sentencing Matters The Anti-Iran Coalition Takes Shape TikTok’s Bad Day at the Supreme Court The ‘Havana ...