A recovering addict, Lynne Patton advised Trump’s campaign on minority outreach and now works at HUD calling attention to appalling public-housing conditions.
Everyone loves the little guy, but Robert Atkinson argues large corporations are more innovative and better to employees.
For a decade, Obama and Andrew Cuomo have been trying to shutter Monroe College. Its president, Marc Jerome, talks about how he fights back.
A meeting with Chinese officials helped convince Neeraj Kaushal nobody is better than the U.S. at handling new arrivals.
Veteran comic Colin Quinn on the encroachments of political correctness and the trials of Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart.
CeCe Moore, an amateur genealogist turned professional, helps police crack decades-old cases.
Bernard-Henri Lévy describes theas a ‘crisis of liberal democracy’ and Trump as an ‘epiphenomenon’ of American ‘retreat.’
Adrian Bejan’s revolutionary theory proposes that the same laws of nature produce rivers, trees, human beings and wealth distributions.
Cal Newport never had a Facebook or Twitter account to delete, but he does have a method to break the habit.
Inspired by a relative’s Alzheimer’s, Nelson Dellis learned 10,000 digits of pi and found ways of making memorization creative and entertaining.
‘I blame the murderer for 50% of what happened,’ says Andrew Pollack. ‘There were so many people who didn’t care, who didn’t do their job.’
Rep. Will Hurd, the congressman in Texas’ toughest district, explains how he beats the odds—and why the GOP needs to reach out beyond its base.
Thirty years ago, crime was out of control. Then came ‘broken windows’ policing. Are politicians forgetting its lessons?
The pope’s chief stargazer, Br. Guy Consolmagno, discusses what the Wise Men saw, how to deflect an asteroid, and why science and faith are more than compatible.
Mitch Daniels, America’s most innovative university president, tells how he’s kept tuition from rising and how acquiring Kaplan University will expand educational access.
How do poor countries get rich? Not with World Bank help but by unleashing the talents of the poor, says Bill Easterly, an economist who defies the philanthropic consensus.
How two lawyers, Irving Picard and David Sheehan, have recovered 75 cents on the dollar of the stolen money—many times the usual rate in such cases.
Oren Cass, Mitt Romney’s former domestic-policy director, says wage subsidies are an alternative to the current welfare state and the left’s universal basic income.
The lesson of 2008, a top economist says, is that monetary maestros don’t pay enough attention to financial markets. Are they making the same mistake again?
A onetime liberal, Heather Mac Donald now believes identity politics threatens higher education and civilization itself.
Malaysia’s prime minister discusses his alliance with a man he once jailed, his trouble with the Chinese, and his country’s system of racial preferences.
Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, talks about the prospects of confirmation, the effort to give the accuser a hearing, and the #MeToo movement.
Iconic sociologist Nathan Glazer on the problems of group identity, affirmative action and Donald Trump.
A leading Google critic on why he thinks the era of ‘big data’ is done, why he opposes Trump’s talk of regulation, and the promise of blockchain.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on the promise and challenges of biologic drugs, capital risk and ‘regulatory arbitrage’ of generics.