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The genre of race memoir is usually dull, but Glenn Loury has transcended it.

The artist's sketches of Confederate soldiers aren't dangerous or derogatory content

Long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, the University of California, Los Angeles's David Geffen School of Medicine receives as many as 14,000 applications a year. Of those, it accepted just 173 students in the 2023 admissions cycle, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).

On August 31, 2023, Yale's 23rd president, Peter Salovey, announced he would be stepping down. Since this announcement, much has transpired in the world of American higher education: the resigna

The book's portrait of the working class contains useful policy prescriptions.

Putting together a Democratic majority in 2024 requires winning back some portion of the rural working class. The good news is that it can be done. Here's how.

The Integrity Committee has failed to root out allegations made against its allies while targeting others with harassment and investigations.

Will Biden's gamble pay off, after the Trump campaign's surprising acceptance of the debate terms?

Rather than costing the federal government $1.7 trillion in tax revenue, the Trump tax cuts are projected to add $1.3 trillion over what the CBO estimated.

Time to ditch epistemic closure.

Above, "Bubba" Copeland, an Alabama pastor and mayor who committed suicide after a news outlet exposed his cross-dressing social media persona, below right. Yet despite media hyperbole, his neighbors don't fit a narrative of rural white intolerance.

A new study shows pot use has exploded-surpassing daily alcohol use in 2022. Potency is way up, too. Thoughts on the new age of weed and what to do.

The definition of online freedom has been depressingly constricted over the last thirty years.

Western analysts think otherwise, because they are seeing Israel's war through the lens of America's own failed counterinsurgency doctrines

The closure of Ferri's, a small family grocer in Pennsylvania, shows some of the ravages of heavy inflation.

Throughout human history, groundbreaking technologies have emerged as the defining voice of their generation, reshaping communication and, in turn, the political landscape. In the 1890s, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated the feasibility of radio, which emerged as the definitive voice for the pre-war generation, heralding a new era in mass communication. By the 1940s, the spirited competition between San Francisco tinkerer Philo Farnsworth and the team at RCA produced live television, which captured... Читать дальше...

In late April, near my home in Tampa, a woman from Guatemala and her four-year-old daughter were brutally killed with a knife and a shovel by the woman's live-in boyfriend. The alleged killer, described in the press as "a Florida man," apparently killed his girlfriend because she returned home late from an outing with friends.

Good progressives are tossing the heady days of wine and wokeness down the memory hole while protesting all too loudly that there is nothing to see there anymore. Luckily, we have Nellie Bowles.

Democrats are plotting how to get rid of the filibuster if they keep the majority in the Senate. That should still be the case even if they lose the White House.

If there is a prize for the worst book of the year, then Jacob Heilbrunn's America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators should be the runaway winner.

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan discuss primary election results in California and other states that voted last night, new swing state polls containing good news for the Biden campaign, and a new Harris poll showing what Americans know and don't know about the economy.

In a normal presidential campaign, the announcement of a running mate gets a lot of media attention - but has little immediate importance.

The Democratic party seems determined to stick its head in the sand, but they can't avoid the Biden problem forever

There are 124 cities with a population over 200,000 in the U.S. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates for last year, over 90% of the U.S. population growth last year took place outside of its 124 largest cities. About a third of those cities lost population last year. The total growth in the population of cities with over 200,000 residents grew by .23%, less than half of what the U.S. grew last year.