T hose New Yorkers who didn’t cast a ballot for Zohran Mamdani in the city’s mayoral primary race -- which is hardly a modest constituency -- might have taken some solace from the new mayor’s ...

There are 47 district-court vacancies (current plus future declared) going into 2026. President Trump has made nominations for only 8 of those seats. Of the 39 vacancies without nominees, 21 have been ...

A Year in Reading What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? The wars that someone’s ancestors fought in are beside the point. Responding to internet-driven debates of late over American ...

The article by Daniel Hess was about the cratering birthrates in formerly Catholic countries. This is notable because Catholics were the holdout among Christian churches, maintaining the church’s ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

The mayor has vowed to eliminate homeless camp sweeps and establish a Department of Community Safety to address mental-health crises.

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

Horse Therapy, Gender-Neutral Bathrooms, and Hate Crime Work Leave: The Wild Blue State Laws of 2025 Mamdani’s Hands-Off Approach to Homeless Camps Could Spell Disaster for NYC 2025, the Year of the ...

C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

One of the reasons Trump is apparently convinced that Putin wants peace is that Russian military forces have not yet bombed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant . . . which Russian military forces ...

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

If Peter Thiel were to move to, say, Texas or Florida, it is highly unlikely that he would miss California’s taxes.