
A Young Conservative’s Case for Environmental Activism
At 27, Benji Backer is rallying people across the political spectrum around a market-driven climate philosophy and a desire to ‘Make America Beautiful Again.’
By M.J. KOCH
||Politics

Ms. Koch graduated in 2023 from Harvard College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student weekly, the Harvard Independent. She reports on issues of higher education and foreign policy at The New York Sun.

At 27, Benji Backer is rallying people across the political spectrum around a market-driven climate philosophy and a desire to ‘Make America Beautiful Again.’
By M.J. KOCH
||Politics

The scholar urges Washington to narrow its ambitions in a multipolar world, but risks mistaking complacency for realism.
By M.J. KOCH
||Culture

As China and Russia race to stake their claim, America is bidding to get ahead through a fusion of federal funding and corporate ambition.
By M.J. KOCH
||National

A dispatch from Vienna, where students as young as 15 gain skills, earn salaries, and help keep youth unemployment among the lowest in Europe.
By M.J. KOCH
||Foreign

The democratic socialist frontrunner to lead the city would end mayoral control of the schools, which are now spending $89 billion a year.
By M.J. KOCH
||Education

Money owed on student loans has more than tripled, growing to $1.73 trillion from $520 billion since 2006.
By M.J. KOCH
||Politics

‘It’s naive to think a successor government would be more friendly to the U.S.,’ one analyst says. ‘Iranian nationalism won’t disappear even if the mullahs do.’
By M.J. KOCH
||Foreign

Young reporters are living at the heart of some of the nation’s biggest news — and often breaking it faster than the professionals.
By M.J. KOCH
||Politics

‘My goal is to make education more affordable,’ Alex Shieh tells the Sun.
By M.J. KOCH
||Education

‘Young people are hungry for something real,’ says a Roman Catholic YouTuber.
By M.J. KOCH
||National

New data from Harvard show a startling trend among those of prime child-bearing age, as Pew finds religion recedes and CDC reports plummeting birth rates.
By M.J. KOCH
||National

The university’s president, Alan Garber, has some challenging days ahead.
By M.J. KOCH
||Education