Social scientists have documented widespread societal harms in states with legal online gambling, alongside rising rates of ...

Harvard was founded by Anglo-Protestants in 1636 to train Christian ministers. Its original motto was Veritas Christo et ...

Even as the Trump administration scrutinizes Harvard University for its racial preferences and cuts another $450 million in ...

Reid Porter is a 2019 Civil Society Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. An experienced attorney, Porter is the Founder and President of Act (Advocates for Community Transformation), an innovative ...

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Stephanie Hessler is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She writes frequently on constitutional law, national security law, counter terrorism law, and judicial nominations. Her work has ...

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The federal endowment tax rewards dependence and punishes self-reliance.

Charles F. McElwee is the founding editor of RealClearPennsylvania. He was previously an editor at City Journal. His writing has appeared at City Journal, RealClearPolitics, The Atlantic, the ...

One of the ironies of Donald Trump’s first presidency is that a former real-estate investor and landlord enacted an unprecedented federal eviction ban. In early 2020, as Covid lockdowns paralyzed the ...

The end of Musk’s tenure at DOGE reminds us that Washington can get the best even of great men. The fight for fiscal ...

On the afternoon of May 2, 1975, the heads of three major New York commercial banks sat down with Governor Hugh Carey at his midtown Manhattan office. The meeting was brief and the bankers got quickly ...