Victor Davis Hanson writes for American Greatness about an apparent historical regression. For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and…
Ben Wilson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about bad news for a leading left-coast city. San Francisco could lose a massive conference that brings in millions of dollars because…
Victoria Taft writes for PJMedia.com about one West Coast city’s significant challenges. The people elected and selected to run Portland, Oregon, are like kids who get their first car and…
Today is the three-year anniversary of inbound visitors being welcomed by Raleigh’s inane Marxist blight: The first thing people entering downtown Raleigh see on inbound South Saunders Street is the…
John Sexton writes at HotAir.com about one couple’s sad San Francisco saga. There were more that 150,000 catalytic converter thefts in 2022, a 2% increase from the previous year. The…
Break-ins are up 200% in Asheville so far this year. This has left business owners frustrated to the point that many are not even reporting the crimes, as a lack of police…
Douglas Murray writes for the New York Post about the dearth of evidence that Democrats can handle local government well. As we draw closer to polling day, there is really…
Nicole Gelinas writes for City Journal about an interesting contrast between Starbucks and fast-food restaurant chains. Starbucks is closing locations across the country, including in Washington’s Union Station—not because any…
Tristan Justice of the Federalist reports a recent complaint from the head of Starbucks. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz placed blame on woke elected officials in Democrat-run cities for the abrupt…
Kylee Zempel of the Federalist explains her ambivalence about the decline of Washington, D.C. Last year when Capitol Hill was chattering about D.C. statehood, I argued that the District of…
Crime rates soared between 1960 and 1980 and remained high throughout the rest of the century, making fighting crime and restoring order national priorities. The burden of crime and disorder…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a new book detailing problems in a leading West Coast city. San Francisco has a poop problem. Between 2011 and 2019,…