Do words have any meaning? Most people think so, which is why there is an endless debate about which words should be permitted by law, which should be a matter for the law, and which words should be ...

Australia does not want its most iconic symbols—the Opera House and Bondi Beach—to become emblems of hatred and violence. But ...

Cultural attitudes toward violence—or, in the case of many Asians, toward nonviolence—help explain why poverty alone doesn’t ...

The Trump administration has announced a new offensive in its war on “disparate impact.” Under disparate-impact doctrine, discrimination doesn’t have to be intentional to be illegal. Race-neutral ...

States with full-time, well-paid legislators often fare poorly in independent studies measuring government effectiveness.

The University of Virginia drew national headlines last summer when its then-president, Jim Ryan, resigned in the face of a ...

The sky was darkening, and the snow started pounding on the Old Capitol building in Iowa City, Iowa. Inside, a group of conservative academics, administrators, and regents prepared for the arrival of ...

The tech Right champions growth and discovery, while the populist Right stresses heritage and cultural values.

Allowing employers to provide pretax funds for employees to purchase their own insurance can allow individuals to opt for ...

The clearest indicator of higher education’s decline is that fewer and fewer young people want to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Like many other transit systems with falling ridership, the Chicago Transit Authority is awash in cash. Over a fifth of the CTA’s ever-increasing budget has recently come from the federal government’s ...

Last month, the New York Times ran a glowing profile of Iowa City’s fare-free bus pilot program. Since eliminating fares in August 2023, the college town of 75,000 has seen ridership increase, ...