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States with full-time, well-paid legislators often fare poorly in independent studies measuring government effectiveness.

The University of Virginia drew national headlines last summer when its then-president, Jim Ryan, resigned in the face of a ...

The University of Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom promises an end to left-wing ideological domination.

Everyone born since the year 2000 has lived with unregulated Internet pornography. Among children, recent litigation demonstrates that widespread pornography leads to unstable future relationships, ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is sure to embed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ideology across New York City. In at least one area, this discriminatory worldview is already doing damage: Gotham’s ...

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The tech Right champions growth and discovery, while the populist Right stresses heritage and cultural values.

Over the past century, the proportion of health-care services purchased through insurance—as opposed to directly by patients—has surged, thanks to the exemption of employer-sponsored benefits from ...

The Origins of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations, by Nicholas Wade (HarperCollins, 256 pp., $32.00) No matter how he lands on one’s radar, Wade is worth reading. His ...

The clearest indicator of higher education’s decline is that fewer and fewer young people want to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Both the dissident online right and left-leaning corporate media have spent the past few weeks convincing themselves that the future of the MAGA movement is the weirdest kids in the room. These ...