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Honduran drug gangs rule the streets of San Francisco.
The city’s progressive policies have allowed migrants from Honduras known as the "Hondos" to take over an entire neighborhood and create an open-air drug market littered with trash and human feces.
In 2022, when former San Francisco mayor London Breed said that "a lot" of the city’s drug dealers were Honduran, she was called "xenophobic and racist" and was pressured into issuing a public apology.
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NEW: A foreign drug gang has taken over an entire neighborhood in downtown San Francisco and turned it into an open-air drug market.
City Journal reporters spent 3 days and nights in the Tenderloin, and what they discovered is shocking.
In the Tenderloin, the Hondos rule.
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RT @reihan: One interesting and underappreciated development: as AIPAC has become a bogeyman in Democratic politics, wealthy tech workers o…
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I spoke this morning on the research, legal, and policy expert panel at the @USCCRgov briefing on mental health in juvenile justice facilities in D.C.
I look forward to sharing my testimony on the issues affecting youth in care!
Happening now! Watch the Commission's briefing on mental health in juvenile justice facilities.
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All of the Ivies have finally realized what we all knew to be true (and what @neetu_arnold has written about extensively)—there needs to be an objective standard for college admissions. Essays and GPAs alone don't cut it.
You can't deny reality forever.
Jun 12
Wow. Columbia brings back the SATs
That means all the Ivies have reinstated standardized test considerations in admissions
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At Harvard, A-range grades made up 85% of all letter grades in 2024-25. At Yale, ~79% of students received A-range grades in 2022-23. More than 70% of students at Emory College had a GPA of 3.5 or higher in 2025.
Grade inflation has been an issue since at least the 1960s. 🧵
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Some schools tried to fix it.
In 2003, Wellesley limited class average grades in lower-level courses to no higher than a B . In 2004, Princeton limited As in each department to 35% for undergraduate course work.
Both policies were unpopular with students & were discontinued.
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Ultimately, grade inflation is an incentive problem. Fixing it requires top-down reforms.
State legislatures are uniquely positioned to correct the problem at public universities.
In a new report, @neetu_arnold proposes a menu of policy solutions that lawmakers could pursue, evaluating the benefits and trade-offs of each. Read the full report here: manhattan.institute/article/…
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My new @ManhattanInst report makes the case for state legislatures to take up the fight against grade inflation at public universities
Universities struggle to maintain strong policies on grading reform b/c institutional incentives discourage serious internal reform⬇️
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NEW: The Mellon Foundation gave $1.5 million to establish a "center for the defense of academic freedom."
In audio I've obtained, the group's leader says his goal is to undermine the newly launched classical civics centers: "map who these f---ers are... and knock them out." 🧵
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EXCLUSIVE: The "Utah Review", a leading piece of evidence currently used by advocates of pediatric medical transitions, "was designed to demonstrate benefits, to overlook harms, and to conclude that the treatments are beneficial and risk-free."
Zhenya Abbruzzese (@segm_ebm) sat down with @LeorSapir on the @CityJournal podcast to discuss:
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NEW: Zhenya Abbruzzese (@segm_ebm) joins me for a special @CityJournal podcast to discuss pediatric transition advocates' leading piece of evidence: the Utah review.
Conflicts of interest, omission of harms, failure to conduct formal synthesis, and more. Full interview 👇
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"Fundamentally, private responsibility is best. ... The government should only step in when the private sector can't work."
@CPopeHC of @ManhattanInst talks about his new book, "The Way of American Welfare: Providing For Those Who Can't Provide For Themselves."
Buy your copy on Amazon: a.co/d/0djwXMTX
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Gavin Newsom last spring: "These are the forest management projects we need to protect our communities most vulnerable to wildfire, and we’re going to get them done."
Over a year later, this is the reality⬇️
EXCLUSIVE: Since last year, Gavin Newsom has "fast-tracked" nearly 100,000 acres of land for fire-management work. But we have obtained internal documents showing that his administration has only completed projects on 798 acres—less than 1 percent.
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What should the welfare state actually be doing?
In his new book, @CPopeHC answers the age-old question with a vision of how America can truly help those who cannot help themselves.
Get your copy of 'The American Way of Welfare' here: amazon.com/dp/1630695432/
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"Having successfully navigated the institutions of American meritocracy, many young American Muslims have rejected the quiet gratitude that one associates with immigrants and their children of earlier eras.
Instead, they have undergone what the political scientist Robert Leiken has called 'anti-West westernization' or 'adversarial assimilation': a process by which incorporation into American institutions produces not attachment to patriotic narratives of American freedom, individualism, and benevolence but hostility toward them."
An absolute must-read from @reihan ⬇️
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"It's not just that we're giving away taxpayer money in New York...
...There has been repeated violence & public disorder on the public transit system, on the streets, and people are deciding that they don't want to be here for that."
@CarolynGorman_ on Your News Talk America:
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Mamdani wants to take private property and transfer its ownership to nonprofits, even though New York previously spent tens of billions trying a similar approach and got poor results.
Read @ManhattanInst's @JKetcham91 in @PirateWires.
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Zohran Mamdani says he’ll take “aggressive legal action” to seize buildings from negligent private landlords and transfer them to nonprofits and tenant associations.
New York tried this 50 years ago — it didn’t work.
In the 70s and 80s, NYC seized thousands of abandoned properties, spent ~$10.6b managing them, and gave many of them to nonprofits. Living conditions deteriorated (77% of city-managed units had rats), and city-appointed landlords fell behind on payments.
Old buildings deteriorate and need money to be fixed; changing a building’s owner doesn’t change its economics. The real issue here is rent regulation, which sharply limits legal rent increases; NYC’s progressive left either doesn’t know or hasn’t acknowledged history, and as @JKetcham91 argues, Mamdani is exploiting their ignorance to build his political base.
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