Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself.
The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market.
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.
New York schools need more choice and better curricula, but the city's new mayor wants to take choices away.
As one of Mamdani's top advisers, Khan has been making a list of all the "authorities that the mayor can unilaterally deploy."
Price controls don't solve economic problems; they disguise them. Prices are messages, and Mamdani wants to shoot the messenger.
The new mayor is keeping Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on the job, but they might have a contentious relationship.
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open government-run grocery stores would waste taxpayer money solving a problem NYC doesn’t have.
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
The new mayor's advisers include people who have praised antisemites and called for defunding the police.
Uniformed and armed men and women can be seen all over the city wielding leaf blowers, hoses, and brooms as they do municipal chores.
"What does completely, completely unregulated commerce look like?" Ken Levine's Bioshock will tell you.
While Europe and Asia have had Stellest glasses for years, the FDA finally approved them for the U.S. in 2025.
People don't like property taxes—but they are also not eager to cut the government services they fund.
Delphi-2M was trained on the world's most comprehensive biomedical database with health information from over 400,000 people.
Vice President J.D. Vance on the nature of power
The online betting company allows you to stake money on future events.
The legal rationale for bombing suspected drug boats in the Caribbean doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
The Trump administration is reportedly moving to ban TP-Link routers, but experts say they're no less secure than other devices.
Brigadier General Albert Pike is honored for his civic and philanthropic legacy, not his role in the Civil War.
Without any real consequences for copyright infringements, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have much incentive to follow the law.
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
Is this "the end of the climate hawk era"?
These bureaucratic maneuvers are making it harder for immigrants to work, learn, and live in the United States.
The constitutionally anomalous status of broadcasting invites government meddling.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is an extreme proposal to effectively outlaw promising AI progress.
Furious Minds identifies national conservatives, postliberals, and Claremonters as the coalition driving the New Right.
Should it matter whether a song was made by a human or a machine?
The new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, D.C., sidesteps its founder's complicated history.
The Death by Lightning miniseries dramatizes the assassination of a president who left little lasting impact on Americans' lives.
The video game's anti-corporate satire is so over the top that it undermines its point.
"I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the state is that it kills so many people," Wilson said in a 1976 interview
"It's not that South Park suddenly quote got political. It's that politics became pop," co-creator Trey Parker said in a recent interview.
"Plank of Zohran Mamdani's platform that's likely to worsen housing shortages"
"I am coming to terms with aging and not being cool and fun anymore. That's the price I'm willing to pay," the author of Drink Your Way Sober tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
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