The mayor’s plan to raise the taxes by 9.5% drew backlash, but her still supports a tax on second homes worth $5 million or more.

Hiking guides hired to carry 20-pound nodes into the mountains were part of a new type of resource survey.

A harmonious history of sight and sound, a look at the long-range future of life, a maverick investor’s memoir and more.

The romantic idea of an insight that suddenly dawns is misleading. Most breakthroughs come slowly.

Selected by George Newman, the author of “How Great Ideas Happen.”

Marcus Aurelius has been acknowledged as a sage. But his reign was marked as much by military affairs as it was by philosophy.

Too many managers take a hands-off approach, and then get frustrated when things go awry. There is a better way

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A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.

One of the most odious sources of small scale authoritarianism in America is a site of actually existing democracy in China

The last several years have been marked by contentious disputes about which governments represent the states of Venezuela, Libya, Yemen, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Niger. Such disputes are far from idl...

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is pleased to announce the ninth round of fellows in its  Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), generously funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ...

Patrick Dovigi has made a hobby out of purchasing some of the country’s priciest properties, and then selling them for even higher prices. ‘I’m trash by day and luxury properties by night.’

The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

The annual book review issue of the Michigan Law Review includes several essays on works of legal history, in addition to Reva Siegel’s historically informed foreword, which which we’ve previously noted.  Erwin Chemerinsky reviews David Pozen’s Constitution of the War on Drugs, Andrew Lanham reviews Aziz Rana’s Constitutional Bind, Marin Levy reviews Robert Post’s Taft Court, and William Novak reviews Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority. --Dan Ernst 

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An Illinois circuit court judge ordered a Chicago landlord last month to pay $80,000 to former tenants after threatening to call ICE on them during a verbal dispute in June of 2020, according to co…