T hose New Yorkers who didn’t cast a ballot for Zohran Mamdani in the city’s mayoral primary race -- which is hardly a modest constituency -- might have taken some solace from the new mayor’s ...

There are 47 district-court vacancies (current plus future declared) going into 2026. President Trump has made nominations for only 8 of those seats. Of the 39 vacancies without nominees, 21 have been ...

A Year in Reading What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? The wars that someone’s ancestors fought in are beside the point. Responding to internet-driven debates of late over American ...

The mayor has vowed to eliminate homeless camp sweeps and establish a Department of Community Safety to address mental-health crises.

C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

Public Discourse has published an outstanding essay—“ The Judicial Oath and the Judgment of History ”— by Eleventh Circuit chief judge William H. Pryor Jr. The essay is adapted from the Rice-Hasson ...

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.

The article by Daniel Hess was about the cratering birthrates in formerly Catholic countries. This is notable because Catholics were the holdout among Christian churches, maintaining the church’s ...