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The Consulting Crash Is Coming
Bloated, overpaid, and outpaced by AI—big firms confront a future they can’t outsource.
Joe Nocera
The Death of the Public Library
Public libraries are in decline not because of the internet or because people are reading less, but because they have become de facto homeless shelters.
Zac Bissonnette
Mamdani Botches the Math on Socialist Grocery Stores
The mayoral front-runner’s $140 million pledge is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city’s current grocery subsidies.
Timothy P. Carney
Congress, Please Do Not Pass the SALT Deduction
The fate of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill may depend on a provision for wealthy blue-state voters who want help paying their property taxes.
Charles Lane
Will Trump Keep Public Lands in Public Hands?
We live in a nation where anyone, rich or poor, has access to such a beautiful diversity of landscapes. The president must block any attempts to change…
Steven Rinella
The Government Is Coming for Our Wilderness. The Falconers Aren’t Happy.
The president’s Big Beautiful Bill threatens not only the environment but also certain Americans’ constitutional right to hunt.
Rachel Dickinson
The End of Youth Gender Transition?
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states can restrict the ability of minors to get transition treatment. It’s long overdue.
Emily Yoffe
EXCLUSIVE: Student Visa Applicants with ‘Hostile Attitudes’ Will Be Told They Can’t Come to the U.S.
The State Department will start reviewing social media ‘to make America and its universities safer.’
Maya Sulkin
A Decade of Donald Trump
Ten years ago, Trump descended the golden escalator—and changed everything.
Matthew Continetti
I’m a Disabled New Yorker. I Hope the Governor Vetoes Medical Aid in Dying.
A life not worthy of living. I’ve heard that before. From peers, from rivals, sometimes from myself.
Dovie Eisner
Will New York Soon Make It Too Easy to Die?
Eleven states have legalized assisted dying, but only New York would have no waiting period, which risks turning suicide into a medical treatment…
Madeleine Kearns
Exclusive: Trump Targets Biden’s $42 Billion Broadband Boondoggle
‘Burdensome regulations’ will disappear under revival plans for the program that has failed to connect anyone to the internet.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
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