Another Rubicon has been crossed: a former president, the presumptive presidential nominee for a major political party, has been convicted of a felony. A Manhattan jury has found Donald Trump guilty ...

In 1938—of all years, the year of Munich—the English novelist E. M. Forster wrote: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my ...

New York State wants to use absurd economic forecasts to justify higher energy prices and expensive alternative-energy ...

On Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul performed one of the great rug-pulls in New York history, telling the Metropolitan Transit Authority “indefinitely” to pause Gotham’s imminent congestion-pricing ...

For anyone who cares about the future of manned spaceflight, it’s been a dramatic week. On Wednesday, June 5, Boeing’s Starliner space capsule lifted off, with two veteran astronauts on board. The ...

Cities are, theoretically, the nimblest governmental level. Unlike federal and state governments, they’re not tasked with national defense or managing massive entitlement programs or social safety ...

Eithan Haim blew the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital’s illegal child sex-change program. Now he’s being prosecuted.

A fight broke out late one Saturday night, or, more accurately, early Sunday morning, at a bar on Chicago’s South Side. Someone called the police just after 4:30 am. But the police didn’t come. The ...

In Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance, the French writer Alain describes his forthcoming book. “It’s really about irony. How ironic life can be,” he says. “How we’re ruled by chance and coincidence. And ...

There is no litter on the streets of Tokyo—and also no litter baskets. That combination tells us much about how this great city maintains its quality of life. Here, public order is preserved not ...