Mamdani came off as an economic and fiscal fabulist, but at least he seemed politically astute. He was the only candidate who ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

This essay first appeared on City Journal ’s Substack.

The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.

Few of President Trump’s second-term actions have proved as controversial as his Day One executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. Like much else that he has done and said, the order, ...

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

I hate to disagree with my colleague, the great Roland Fryer—and doubly so when it comes to economics. Fryer’s work is consistently both stimulating and insightful, and his contributions to public ...

Migration from California has helped change Colorado from a libertarian-inflected reddish state into a solid-blue one. And now blue Colorado is starting to turn into California. Not so long ago, ...

Data centers in outer space? It makes sense, according to Elon Musk, hence the recent tectonic, trillion-dollar merger ...

I first became aware of Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in 2006, when I was in graduate school and he was nominated to the Fed Board of ...

Harvard has a plagiarism problem. At the beginning of the year, Claudine Gay resigned as university president following a plagiarism scandal. Weeks later, the Washington Free Beacon published a report ...

Los Angeles has a history of progressive housing policies that sound good in theory but prove counterproductive in practice. Measure ULA, the city’s so-called “mansion tax,” is the latest example, and ...