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Heather Mac Donald Safe Streets, Overruled A judge’s appalling decision will endanger New York’s most vulnerable residents. New York’s 20-year reprieve from debilitating violence may well be over. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department has been willfully targeting blacks and Hispanics for unlawful stop, question, and frisks based on their skin color alone, in violation of the Constitution. . . . KEEP READING

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Get online updates: Search the website:	Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres The Childless City It’s hip, it’s entertaining—but where are the families? Guy Sorman Philanthropy by the Numbers Can charities accurately measure their effect on society? Steven Malanga The Indebted States of America States and localities owe far, far more than their citizens know. Nicole Gelinas What to Do When You’re Broke New York’s insolvent municipalities could learn from California’s bankrupt ones. Kay S. Hymowitz Bed-Stuy’s (Unfinished) Revival Wine bars on one block, midnight shootings on the next Paul Starobin Just Tommy from Hyde Park Boston’s Thomas Menino shows how to be a mayor for life. Adam Freedman Federalism, Red and Blue Both Right and Left are telling Washington to back off. Victor Davis Hanson California’s Promethean Past How a visionary entrepreneur watered and powered Los Angeles Claire Berlinski Silencing the Djinns A dam project threatens the world’s oldest city. Michael J. Totten Can Beirut Be Paris Again? Freed from Syrian domination, Lebanon’s capital could shine. James Panero The View from Marcellus Fracking brings breathtaking economic and environmental benefits—at least to places that welcome it. Photographs by David Brabyn Surfing NYC The city’s surprising subculture of wave riders Tevi Troy When the President Came to Town New York used to be more than a money stop for the nation’s chief executives. Adam Kirsch In Proust’s Footsteps Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard reclaims the novel’s humanistic ambitions. Daniel DiSalvo and Rajan Menon CCNY Does Right Bucking political correctness, the college names a school after Colin Powell. Heather Mac Donald In Defense of Serena The tennis champ shouldn’t have backtracked about personal responsibility. Steven Malanga Who Will Audit the Auditors? State and local bureaucracies often abuse their taxing authority. Bruce Bawer Jeremy Scahill, Ideologue The award-winning journalist is hardly a nonpartisan truth-teller. Troy Senik and John Yoo Disabling Democracy The Supreme Court’s marriage ruling weakens California’s initiative process. Ben Boychuk Ben Chavis’s Last Stand Oakland educrats try to kill a phenomenally successful charter school system. Theodore Dalrymple Trouble in Paradise On Sweden, social welfare, and riots


E. J. McMahon Overburdened New York’s tax regime costs the city jobs in a hypercompetitive age. More from this issue >>
Larry Sand Trigger Tremors California’s parent-empowerment law gains ground—and meets new resistance.

J. Eric Wise Is Detroit Dead? Charlie LeDuff says yes. 9 August 2013 Brian Domitrovic Safety-Net Nation The real costs of Obama’s economic policies are still being felt. 6 August 2013 More . . .	Clark Whelton Stand Your Ground, New York The city should defend its anticrime culture. 12 August 2013 In Memoriam Peter Flanigan (1923–2013) More . . .
Brian C. Anderson & Peter Reinharz Bring Back Sportsmanship Sports once celebrated aggression civilized by rules. Now, anything goes. Spring 2000 KEEP READING
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City Journal’s Ben Boychuk and Philadelphia Magazine’s Joel Mathis discuss “The Rise of the Warrior Cop” with author and Huffington Post investigative reporter Radley Balko. 24 July 2013 City Journal Editor Brian C. Anderson discusses how to save America’s largest state in The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It. 1 July 2013 More . . .
Heather Mac Donald cited in National Review Online \| Stop-and-Frisk Is Fair Daniel Freedman in Dallas Morning News \| States' rights, red and blue Ben Boychuk in The Sacramento Bee \| Viewpoints: 'Parent trigger' tribulations - and triumphs Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres cited in TribLIVE \| A childless city is a poor city City Journal cited in TribLIVE \| Power to 'We the People' More . . .
Brian C. Anderson In Prospect Oh, to be in England Theodore Dalrymple Monstrous Polyamorist Michael Philpott killed his children in pursuit of welfare benefits. Letters Contributors Diarist Tom Chatfield Anxious in the Information Age This story has not been released online yet.