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DEI Captures the Treasury Department
The Treasury Department is ground zero for the Biden administration’s “whole-of-government” DEI agenda. The agency, which serves as the guardian of the American financial system, has translated ...
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The Incredible Shrinking Mayor
Whether it’s schools, crime, or public finances, Brandon Johnson’s administration has left destruction in its wake.
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Lessons from Protectionism Past
The 1981 VER agreement is, at best, a partial success. It accelerated the arrival of Japanese auto manufacturing in America.
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The Great Inversion
The quickly settled International Longshoremen’s Association strike takes us one more step toward the Great Inversion: a future in which people in the skilled and semi-skilled trades boast higher ...
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Lying by Omission
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent appearance on CBS News has ignited yet another round of controversy. This time, the firestorm surrounded the network’s Tony Dokoupil, who dared to ask Coates challenging, if ...
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Hot Rod Hell
Rising social disorder in a post-Covid, defund-the-police America has forced cities and states to address new kinds of criminal outbreaks—from mass retail theft to squatting. Authorities have ...
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What Are We Doing to Children?
A few years before the Covid pandemic, the Irish state television network (RTÉ) asked me to appear in a documentary about the sudden increase of transsexualism in the Western world. Why me, I asked? I ...
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Blind, but Not Mute
Progressivism is a mental disorder—that, at any rate, is the verdict one is tempted to reach upon finishing Emily Witt’s striking new memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown. Witt is a reporter for The ...
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Leor Sapir
Leor Sapir is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Program on Constitutional Government at ...
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Kay S. Hymowitz
Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in ...
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Seth Barron
Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind, a publication of The Claremont Institute. He writes primarily about New York City politics and culture. Barron has a B.A. in English literature ...