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A State-Level Agenda for Higher-Ed Reform
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (512+ words) How governors can lead the way Today, we're looking at higher-education reform, DEI at the University of Wisconsin, and gender medicine in Texas. Write to us at editors@city-journal. org with questions or comments. Now, on to the news" Conservatives…...
Restaurants Devoured by Bad Government
22+ hour, 14+ min ago (342+ words) Beset by rising taxes, wage mandates, and regulation, restaurants have struggled to recover from their pandemic-era woes. "As long as I'm president, I'll always defend your right to run your own small business and do it well," Trump told the…...
How GOP Governors Can Rescue Higher Education
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (653+ words) City Journal How GOP Governors Can Rescue Higher Education With public trust collapsing, Republican governors should lead the effort to reform colleges and universities. Over the last few decades, the two most important domestic policy successes for American conservatives'reforming welfare…...
The Texas Medical Association Stays the Course on Gender Medicine
3+ day, 8+ min ago (172+ words) Its 2026 conference reveals an organization unwilling to update its view of transgender health care, despite evidence. The TMA's Reference Committee on Financial and Organizational Affairs urged delegates to reject a transparency proposal for reference committees'the bodies that prescreen resolutions. The…...
Has the University of Wisconsin Really Abandoned DEI?
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (318+ words) A school-backed exhibit shows messages like "all white people are racist." A red sweatshirt read, "All White People are Racist." One sign said, "UW's Free Speech = White Supremacy," accompanied by the school's badger mascot wearing a KKK hood and holding…...
Mayor Mamdani's New Budget
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (405+ words) It sets up New York City for long-term pain. Today, we're looking at Mayor Mamdani's new budget, a court ruling that jeopardizes New York City's finance industry, and the youth mental-health crisis. Write to us at editors@city-journal. org with…...
Ben Sasse on AI and America's Future
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (547+ words) How to harness technology without being mastered by it. Today, we're looking at Ben Sasse's ideas on technology and the American future, New York's crippling electricity costs, a troubling program in California's prison system, and social media's distortion of reality....
Mamdani Closes New York City's $12 Billion Budget Gap'For Now
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (291+ words) Successful for now, New York's mayor bets the future will work out'and that he can keep spending more than the city takes in. The property tax hike was in lieu of the mayor's desired increase in personal and business income…...
A Federal Court Is Jeopardizing New York's Financial Reputation
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (425+ words) In Petersen Energia Inversora SAU v. YPF, the Second Circuit allowed Latin American socialists to swindle Wall Street investors. Nationalizing industry is as Argentine as churrasco steak and malbec wine, so it only makes sense that New York investors demanded protections....
Habits for Americans in an Age of Disruption
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (676+ words) Remarks at Manhattan Institute's Hamilton Award Dinner, May 6, 2006 When you're 54 and you get a terminal diagnosis, people start to act like you're a lot wiser than they thought you were when you were 54 and you didn't have a terminal diagnosis....