Naomi Schaefer Riley

Putting judges in charge of agencies, particularly over long periods of time, makes the system even more unaccountable than an executive agency on its own.

It turns out the advice we've been getting for years isn't actually helpful.

It turns out the advice we've been getting for years isn't actually helpful.

David Brooks is nothing if not good at describing a problem. In a 2020 cover story for The Atlantic, Brooks focused on the American family, “once

According to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, first-year enrollment dropped by more than 5% in 2024.

Was 2024 the “fentanyl election”? A recent article in The New Yorker by Benjamin Wallace-Wells suggests that the effect of the drug crisis on certain

These problems are often talked about separately, but they are closely entwined.

These problems are often talked about separately, but they are closely entwined.

"I think it is fairly obvious," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in 1940, "that women have voted on most questions as individuals and not as a group, in much the same way that men do, and that they are influenced by their environment and their experience and background just as men are." Eighty-five years later, it seems many in this country have not absorbed Roosevelt's lesson. The idea that women would turn out en masse for Kamala Harris because of her position on abortion or subsidized child care turned out to be nothing more than a fever dream of the pink-hat wearing crowd. Roosevelt's observation—which is reported in Gioia Diliberto's lively new history Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition —should not be interpreted to mean that there is nothing about being a woman that informs one's vote. As she mentions, "experience" matters. But it's not the only thing, and being a woman may inform votes in ways that are not easily predictable.

Lawsuits have exposed a system in crisis.