Americans have been moving from high-tax states to low-tax states for a long time, but the trend has become more acute since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in 2020. The increasing availability of ...

The top official in Mayor Mamdani’s Office for International Affairs made plans to meet with Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations. Commissioner Ana María Archila was ...

Many states are facing a backlash to the recent and rapid legalization of sports gambling. Some legislatures are considering regulations meant specifically to curb addiction and game-rigging.

An A in a college class used to mean achievement. Today, an A means the average. Grade inflation—the phenomenon whereby universities increase students’ average grades without a corresponding increase ...

When Medicaid, the U.S. program that purchases health care for the poorest Americans, originally went into effect, states paid directly for health-care services provided to beneficiaries. But in ...

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In 1983, a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, “A Nation at Risk,” warned that students were leaving school without the academic foundations needed for long-term success.[1] ...

A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines today’s Democratic coalition and the tensions shaping the party ahead of the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential election cycles. The ...

New York State’s revenue-raising strategy since the Great Recession could be summed up by a frequent chant at then-candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign rallies: “Tax the Rich!” Starting in 2009, with a ...

New York City’s special-education system looks very different today from the way it did a decade ago. For the 2026 fiscal year, 2.15% of the Department of Education’s entire budget was approved for ...

During President Donald Trump’s first term in office, his administration sought to strengthen the “public charge” requirement of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which aims to prevent the ...

Many Americans with serious mental illness lack access to inpatient psychiatric care. For decades, Medicaid’s “institutions for mental diseases” (IMD) exclusion has been a major barrier to expanding ...