Plus: New Jersey property owners survive an eminent domain attempt based on bogus blight allegations, a corporate homebuyer ban is slipped into Congress' housing bill, and the true cost of permitting in L.A.
Amid a $5.4 billion budget deficit, the mayor of New York City is pushing forward with a proposal that has historically yielded terrible results.
So much for "the warmth of collectivism."
What's a "tax the rich" mayor going to do when he can't actually tax the rich?
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's rent rip-off hearings exclude public housing tenants, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a "yes" on rent control, and the intersection of zoning and qualified immunity.
New York City's own past policies are to blame for much of the gig economy drama, which Mayor Mamdani will further exacerbate.
Politicians like New York’s Mayor Mamdani promise to solve a problem that they created.
Across advanced economies, they have repeatedly been narrowed or even repealed after delivering disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight, and costly administrative battles.
Polymarket’s pop-up grocery and Kalshi’s food money giveaways are the latest examples in New York’s decades-long history of food charity.
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
Limited government means those in power can do limited damage to the rest of us.
Zohran Mamdani had a chance to pursue health care reform in the New York State Assembly. He didn’t take it.
Is Medical Aid in Dying a fundamental right? Or a slippery slope toward state-supported suicide?
Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill mandating two-person subway crews, but union contracts and bipartisan support ensure New Yorkers will keep paying for them anyway.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss Nick Shirley's viral video about Minnesota day care fraud, then dig deeper into how Tim Walz has little respect for American taxpayers.
Plus: the limits of Zohran Mamdani's ability to ruin New York, Trump's National Guard withdrawal, and a deadly New Year's blaze in Switzerland
The new mayor is keeping Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on the job, but they might have a contentious relationship.
New York schools need more choice and better curricula, but the city's new mayor wants to take choices away.
Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself.
Price controls don't solve economic problems; they disguise them. Prices are messages, and Mamdani wants to shoot the messenger.
New York's new mayor has moved away from some of his far-left beliefs, acknowledging that private businesses play an important role in homebuilding.
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
"Plank of Zohran Mamdani's platform that's likely to worsen housing shortages"
As one of Mamdani's top advisers, Khan has been making a list of all the "authorities that the mayor can unilaterally deploy."
The new mayor's advisers include people who have praised antisemites and called for defunding the police.
The city has removed tens of thousands of rooms from the stock of short-term housing available to tourists while making it significantly harder to build and expand hotels.
Kennedy hits the streets of New York City to ask tourists a simple question: why is visiting NYC at Christmas so outrageously expensive?
The Cato Institute has posted one on its website.
When the so-called "communist lunatic" and the so-called "fascist" find common ground, it means the country needs an intervention.
Reason Roundup newsletter writer and associate editor Liz Wolfe goes live with Reason’s writers and producers to give you an exclusive look at what’s coming next from our newsroom.
Friedrich Hayek's most popular work was dedicated to "the socialists of all parties." That phrase perfectly captures politics in 2025.
The fight over dietary guidelines is just part of a broader trend: Government at every level wants a say in what Americans eat.
As fans of horseshoe theory point out, the political extremes might differ on details, but they have a lot in common.
The only reason we celebrate the holiday with lots of food is because the Pilgrims learned—the hard way—that socialism doesn't work.
The government destroyed the last century's privately provided housing safety net. Bringing it back is harder than you might think.
Using the mighty power of government to…make stadium hot dogs cheaper? It's one of many ways Khan's petty populism could be coming to New York City.
Rent freezes will discourage construction, government-run grocery stores are a joke, and free buses will become roving homeless shelters.
Landlords argue that rent caps on vacant units prevent them from financing the costs of legally mandated renovations.
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows how the rhetoric of working-class revolution now resonates most with the highly educated.
Plus: House votes on reopening, affordability crisis discourse, the rise of humanoid robots, and more...
The surge in shelter surrenders is driven by housing instability, soaring vet costs, and a post-pandemic pet boom, not the cost of kibble.
The new mayor's buddy, Hasan Piker, wishes the Soviet Union had won the Cold War.
To understand this week's election, look to economic and political lessons from Argentina.
Does that mean they want more housing generally?
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