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Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and as ...

Chairman Jerome Powell failed to state whether inflation would moderate again or if there were reasons to worry about the economy.

On the morning of December 4, 2024, in midtown Manhattan, a masked male snuck up behind the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance company, and pumped three bullets into the executive’s back and ...

Early Sunday morning, aboard an F train at the Coney Island–Stilwell Avenue station in Brooklyn, New York, a man allegedly set a sleeping woman ablaze and emotionlessly watched her burn to death from ...

Among all the problems generated by marijuana legalization, few have proved more pervasive than the smell. From Los Angeles to D.C., residents complain regularly of the reek of weed. Perhaps because ...

The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the ...

Bjørn Lomborg, an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalistand Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming.

Boosted by a surge in foreign migrant border-crossing, New York State’s population has rebounded from its post-pandemic lows since 2022, according to updated Census Bureau estimates. As of mid-2024, ...

In 2006, the cable channel TV Land surveyed the greatest catchphrases in American television. The winner? “Heeeeerrre’s Johnny!” the nightly words, spoken by sidekick Ed McMahon, that brought out ...

Inflation remains stubbornly above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. Yet, instead of maintaining a firm stance at its December 18 meeting, the Fed cut interest rates for the third time in three ...