Brian Anderson(@BrianAcity):From Chicago’s Hyde Park to D.C.’s Navy Yard to beaches and malls coast to coast, marauding mobs, mostly made up of black youth, are commandeering streets, looting stores, assaulting officers, and turning public spaces into zones of chaos. Social media summon these mobs; various progressive excuses, from supposed poverty to the purported lack of safe spaces, enable them. Here’s Heather Mac Donald with our thickly reported cover story from the forthcoming City Journal on the scourge of teen takeovers and what it will take to restore order.

2026.07.12 21:27

From Chicago’s Hyde Park to D.C.’s Navy Yard to beaches and malls coast to coast, marauding mobs, mostly made up of black youth, are commandeering streets, looting stores, assaulting officers, and turning public spaces into zones of chaos. Social media summon these mobs; various progressive excuses, from supposed poverty to the purported lack of safe spaces, enable them. Here’s Heather Mac Donald with our thickly reported cover story from the forthcoming City Journal on the scourge of teen takeovers and what it will take to restore order.