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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Michigan Board of Regents is considering defunding the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion office, according to the faculty senate chair. If adopted, the reform would mark a ...

Despite claiming years ago to have “the best words,” President-elect Donald Trump is something less than a flawless orator. Consider his remarks during an on-stage appearance this past summer at the ...