The passage of the First Step Act by the federal government one year ago marked a significant change in the way states approached the issue of criminal justice reform. Some states, like Florida, have…

New reporting claims that Mark Zuckerberg has aides blow-dry his armpits before important speaking events to reduce his profuse anxiety-related sweating. Unless the Facebook CEO has licensed…

After a group of homeless moms simply moved into a vacant three-bedroom house in Oakland owned by a company that invests in local real estate, local progressives turned them into folk heroes. These…

During the Great Depression, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and poet Carl Sandburg posed the question, “What is history but a few Big Names plus People?” Eighty-four years later, the…

For those of us wary of political infighting, it’s been a tiresome few months.

Just the past few weeks alone featured the Iowa Caucus meltdown, the president’s State of the Union address,…

Georgia led the nation in executions a few short years ago, and while that may seem to imply that the Peach State’s capital punishment system is thriving, that couldn’t be further from the…

Every year since 1896, on or near George Washington’s birthday, a member of the U.S. Senate has read aloud the first president’s farewell address on the Senate floor. The party of the reader…

The very long subtitle of Yuval Levin’s new book, A Time to Build, states the book’s main program clearly enough: “From family and community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our…

There is, at present, a widespread sense among Americans that something has broken politics. Most people think the problem is unchecked partisan rancor and escalating ideological warfare between…

A couple of weeks ago, I went to lunch with a prominent journalist who wanted to ask me about Wikipedia. I had been general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation for a few years during a time when the…