Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where his work focuses on education, civil society, and the principles of American conservatism. In 2021, he was appointed by Governor Larry ...

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step ...

Dan Morenoff is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the executive director at the American Civil Rights Project. Previously, Morenoff practiced law and served on the legislative staff of ...

Eisgruber was right to say that he presides over a system of racial discrimination—but not in the way he imagines. The ...

Dan Katz was formerly a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he worked at the intersection of public policy and financial markets. Previously, he served as a senior advisor at the United ...

Alex Armlovich writes primarily on urban issues, such as housing, transportation, and infrastructure. He is the author of MI’s Poverty and Progress in New York series, which benchmarks quality-of-life ...

Reid Porter is a 2019 Civil Society Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. An experienced attorney, Porter is the Founder and President of Act (Advocates for Community Transformation), an innovative ...

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

On November 5, the Democratic Party received what counts in our hyper-polarized age as a comprehensive drubbing. Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states, improved over his 2016 and 2020 ...

The last four months have been a whirlwind of change in the gender debate. Just eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order provocatively titled “Protecting ...

Earlier this month, on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, 38-year-old Cody Balmer firebombed the residence of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. A search warrant indicates that the ...

Last week, reports surfaced that the Trump administration was directing the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This ...