I have a colleague in the sciences, and he was told by the department, “You can’t shortlist this person. We can’t hire a ...

The epitaph on John O’Hara’s Princeton gravestone reads: “Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional.” Another Irishman, ...

Last week, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum ordered construction halted on Empire Wind, the planned array of roughly 150 wind turbines off the coast of Long Island. In doing so, he may have sunk ...

“In this world there are only two tragedies,” says Mr. Dumby, a character in Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windemere’s Fan. “One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much ...

Canada, where I call home, is the only jurisdiction in the world that hands out free addictive drugs to addicts. Under the “safer-supply” policy, Canadian health authorities distribute ...

Happy Friday. Today, we’re looking at why improving Penn Station is so daunting, how judges could bring an end to the filibuster, why advocacy groups are failing Muslim Americans, and a group in New ...

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step ...

For veterans of the Muslim American civic scene, it is no surprise that the California chapter of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is having more legal problems. The organization is ...

When I interviewed to work for then-Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2021, he told me that we’d have one focus: protecting the filibuster. Thanks to a combination of McConnell’s shrewd ...

New Yorkers have greeted U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement last week of a federal takeover of the Pennsylvania Station improvement project with weary skepticism. That skepticism ...