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 ...

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

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

This essay first appeared on City Journal ’s Substack.

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

According to a new Pew Research poll, nearly 60 percent of teens believe that students frequently use artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT and Copilot to cheat in school. Educators have ...

No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel expecting a cheerful ending, and her latest, A Better Life, will not disillusion readers in this respect. An expert in the depiction and skewering of middle-class ...

One of the most persistent myths since October 7, 2023, is that college students organically gravitated toward militant pro-Palestinian activism. On those campuses that saw the most aggressive ...

Donald Trump is everywhere; that’s true for his country and for the world. At home, Trump is engaged in an astonishing number of high-visibility battles with institutions once controlled by the ...

Few issues matter more to voters than food costs. Nearly 90 percent of Americans report stress about grocery prices, and more than half call it a “major” source of anxiety. So it was perhaps ...

How bad was President Trump’s loss last week at the Supreme Court in the tariffs case? Really bad. How does this defeat compare with other losses suffered by presidents at the Court? There is no ...

But Colorado has become a cautionary tale of what happens when Democrats and Golden State refugees capture a state’s politics. The high housing prices, demographic stagnation, and business weakness in ...