Frederique is also an advocate for New York City’s controversial supervised consumption sites. This despite the minimal ...

In children’s advocate Natalya Murakhver’s new documentary, 15 Days, the Covid-19-era school closures return to the spotlight. Though the pandemic has passed, the film reminds us that many of that era ...

Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo are to be congratulated for the attention they have drawn to the issue of fraud committed by a large cast of Minnesota Somalis. I have devoted attention to the issue ...

Last week, my colleague Ryan Thorpe and I broke a story about widespread fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota. Members of the state’s Somali community allegedly participated in complex schemes ...

Sergio Hyland seemed like the perfect advocate. Calling himself a “fierce, relentless, implacable abolitionist,” determined to end incarceration in the United States, Hyland had spent more than two ...

American Jews are defined by apparent paradoxes. The religious group most beloved by fellow Americans, they also suffer the most bias-motivated violence—by a lot—and face increasing hostility from ...

Today, we’re looking at Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget, sex offenders and homelessness, the importance of child abuse pediatricians (CAPs), why incarceration works, and the disappearance of an ...

Last week’s White House meeting between President Donald Trump and New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani brought together two opposing personalities—and set two irreconcilable visions of immigration ...

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Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. He authored The Human City: ...