The city slashed fire and other basic services after Mayor Karen Bass awarded fat contracts to government workers.

Stephen Miran is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital, the global investment firm. Miran works at the intersection of economic policy and investing.

State efforts to prevent them have been costly and impractical, with grim results.

Devastating images have emerged of the immense destruction wrought by several fires in the Los Angeles area this week. These will likely be the costliest wildfires in U.S. history, overtaking the 2018 ...

Republicans have retaken Congress, and on January 20, with Donald Trump’s inauguration, they will control the White House, too. The party will then presumably get to work crafting and passing ...

Just before the close of 2024, Mayor Eric Adams’s scandal-plagued administration faced another round of controversy. On December 20, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer—Chief of Patrol ...

According to the Financial Times, this growth would only bring GDP per capita back to its 2021 level, so Argentina still has ...

With Donald Trump set to take office later this month, it’s worth considering how his coalition has changed. The source of the president-elect’s power—his voting base—is populist in nature. This was ...

Not long ago, liberals had a nervous breakdown over the decline (or so they imagined) of the Internet. Democrats predicted that we were about to “get the internet one word at a time.” A senator warned ...