Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

Every year, schools invest immense sums of money in sports programs to cultivate the performance of students who show extraordinary athletic promise. In the 2024–2025 school year, more than 8 million ...

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From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court.

Americans are using more and more medical care, but the need to pay for it all is a drag on employment in other sectors.

No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel expecting a cheerful ending, and her latest, A Better Life, will not disillusion readers in this respect. An expert in the depiction and skewering of middle-class ...

Few issues matter more to voters than food costs. Nearly 90 percent of Americans report stress about grocery prices, and more than half call it a “major” source of anxiety. So it was perhaps ...

The Mellon Foundation, the country’s largest private funder of the arts and humanities, offers the clearest example. The foundation directs much of its funding to developing the academic talent ...

But Colorado has become a cautionary tale of what happens when Democrats and Golden State refugees capture a state’s politics. The high housing prices, demographic stagnation, and business weakness in ...