Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.

Historical segregation turns out to have been greater than we thought—and it hasn't gone away.

Americans seem likelier than other Westerners to believe the world is fair.

In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.

The instability of the white working class.

Political correctness tends to close off important, if uncomfortable, topics.

Social media is only the latest development in a long history of community support.

The success of humanitarian appeals  is not a given of human nature. They work because we have come to sympathize with the suffering of others, distant and alien.

The American ideal of local government is productive in many ways, but also costly.

The left's separation from the churches means continuing estrangement from middle America.

The decades-long rise in IQs suggests that intelligence is not biologically fixed.

After decades of such astonishing change, the gender revolution appears over—before its completion.

Does e-dating undermine our commitment to any one person?

Should economists be studying happiness?

We are entering the season of the Great American Choice, the quadrennial selection of our leader.

Why Don’t Americans Take Vacations?

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

An interview with Fischer about his new BR column.

Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem