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There’s a novel solution to controversy over admission to New York City’s specialized high schools

This week, 26,000 anxious eighth graders will learn their fate: Did they get into one of New York City’s eight specialized high schools?

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—March 1

1954—The Senate, by voice vote, confirms President Eisenhower’s nomination of former California governor Earl...

What Should Our Justice System Do with Lower-Level Offenders?

Modest reforms can reduce crime, whereas big bets often backfire.

Death Comes to Khamenei

The despot at the top of Iran’s clerical hierarchy since 1989 met his fate at the...

Special Education Law Needs Reform

Growing rosters and excessive accommodations are making special education less effective for students who...

Will Trump let Mali fall to the jihadists

The third time will not be the charm. As radical jihadis close in on Bamako, the capital of Mali and a city with roughly the same population as Los Angeles, the United States appears woefully unprepared, if not AWOL. President Donald Trump has yet to appoint an assistant secretary of State to oversee and coordinate […]

The Supreme Court may not be eager to dump the Trump tariffs

The oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week added another level of debate to the ongoing arguments among everyone interested in President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Until last week, most of the arguments about tariffs have swirled around the economic impact of the president’s tariffs. But the arguments before the court had very little to […]

Brave reformers must dethrone radical political zealots to save our universities

Observers have long shrugged off the danger with the complacent idea that students will see through their professors’ foolishness — if not right away,...

Michael Goodwin: Toxic Dems Schumer, Pelosi get shut down – and Trump stands tall with one of his biggest DC wins

The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend to...

The changing history of the shutdown

THE CHANGING HISTORY OF THE SHUTDOWN. Why did Senate Democrats shut the government down for more than 40 days? Now that the standoff is over, it appears a number of Democrats cannot agree among themselves on why they did what they did. The stated reason for the shutdown, of course, was the Democratic demand that Republicans extend […]

From ‘leverage’ to lies, Democrats were always responsible for shutdown suffering

Democrats tried their hardest to convince the country that the government shutdown was the fault of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. They relied on every political weapon at their disposal. They used their accomplices in the media. They used celebrities to advance their political narratives. They unleashed their social media army of trolls […]

NYC has had plenty of mayors — but none like our next one

We’ve had mayors to the right of us — and now way-the-hell to the left of us.

NYC’s jails mess should prompt the feds to END the ‘Close Rikers’ farce

A new watchdog report on Rikers Island details new medical and safety horrors besetting detainees at the sprawling jail complex — a headache that...

Zohran Mamdani is reviving the worst of the de Blasio years

Bringing in Steven Banks to serve as corporation counsel, the city's chief lawyer, would elevate one of the worst de Blasio administration players into...

Please stop the ‘free money’ conveyor belt, Mr. President

President Donald Trump’s talk of a $2,000 tariff “dividend” for nearly every American sounds tempting, but more “free money” from Uncle Sam is a...

Paying a fortune for a college education may be a big waste of money right now

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says smart kids graduating from great universities with “generalized knowledge” are “effed" right now.

City budget is Zohran Mamdani’s first big task — with spendthrift staffers by his side

For all the talk of Zohran Mamdani as the new face of the Democratic Party, Gotham on his watch will likely revert to business...

Forget 50-year mortgage gimmicks and tariff checks— Trump must boost the economy, pronto

The financial finagling President Trump is floating this week won't save Republicans in the midterms: The nation needs a rebirth of industry, enabled by...

Trump’s Cornell University deal leaves a ‘zombie’ DEI agenda ready to rise from the dead

In a netherworld of word games and obfuscation, Cornell’s DEI lives on — and it will come roaring back if higher education waits Trump...

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