The L.A. Department of Water and Power had kept the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir empty for nearly a year, contributing to dry ...

In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...

The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton’s Christopher L.

No presidential administration has taken anti-Asian discrimination in university admissions more seriously than Donald Trump’s. In an August memorandum to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the ...

A few weeks ago, my friend Maralyn Beck, a child welfare advocate in New Mexico, received an urgent text message from a 22-year-old woman who had recently aged out of the foster-care system. She was ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “freeze the rent” pledge for New York City’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments was his best-known campaign initiative. But making good on that promise may require him ...

On a recent visit to a thriving all-girls’ high school in Brooklyn, I was reminded of how institutions like this have long made New York a place where families can live, grow, and educate their ...

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In September, a federal judge ruled that a Virginia school board violated students’ First Amendment rights by reinstating the name “Stonewall Jackson High School.” While Judge Michael F. Urbanski ...