This New York Charter School Is Helping Low-Income Students. But the City Is Holding It Back.
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
Bill de Blasio
How Brooklyn's Much-Copied Diversity Plan Helped Throw its Best Middle School Into Chaos
After former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio changed the admissions rules at the school his kids graduated from, testing, safety, and excellence plummeted.
Goodbye and Good Riddance to Bill de Blasio, a Terrible Mayor on Every Issue He Tripped Over
The best thing you could say about Bill de Blasio was that he was good for a laugh.
New York Is Trying To Punish Its Way to 100% Vaccine Compliance
15 out of 16 adult New Yorkers have gotten the jab, but that's not enough to keep government from fining businesses and excluding kids.
De Blasio's New York Shouldn't Treat Unvaccinated Kids as Second-Class Citizens
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Imposes Vaccine Mandate for all Private Employers
The mayor also said that children aged 5–11 will have to be vaccinated in order to go to restaurants or engage in "high-risk" extracurricular activities.
New York Shouldn't Treat the Unvaccinated as Second-Class Citizens
De Blasio should honor expectations of medical privacy, not threaten government retribution for those who make choices he dislikes.
NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of Redefining Language
Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.
New York City Is Hiding Its K-12 Enrollment Decline
How big is the defection from government schools in the country's largest district? That's for politicians to know, and you to find out.
NYC Theaters Sue Bill de Blasio, Claiming Vaccine Mandate Obstructs Free Speech
The lawsuit argues the mandate leads to discrimination based on content of speech and type of speaker.
Rikers Island Offers a Glimpse of America's Hellhole Prisons
Formal sentences cover for informal penalties including crowding, poor sanitation, beatings, and rape.
Crises Bring Out the Toddler in Power-Hungry Politicians
Thwarted politicians rant, pout, and are outraged by anybody who pushes back.
'Do I Look Like the COVID Police?'
Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.
Families Are Fleeing Government-Run Schools
Brooklyn elementary loses one-third of its student population and eight teachers, as the first 2021–22 enrollment numbers straggle in.
When De Blasio's Vaccination Passport Plan Went Into Effect Yesterday, One-Quarter of Adult New Yorkers Were Barred From Going Out
Going out in Manhattan the first night patrons were required to prove their vaccination status
The Unsinkable City
A new book explores how New York has transformed itself since the crises of the 1970s.
Resist De Blasio's Vaccine Passport
De Blasio's dataless call to create a class of citizens barred from civic life is an intolerable imposition on New Yorkers' liberties.
New York City Adopts Vaccine Passports
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
New York City Ends Qualified Immunity for Police Officers
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
Bill de Blasio Says the NYPD Should Warn People Not To Be Haters
"If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it's perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them."
Bill de Blasio: 1 Mask Good, 2 Masks Better
Plus: The media rechristens "kids in cages" as "migrant facilities for children," Matt Taibbi on cable providers potentially dropping Fox and Newsmax, and more...
Cuomo's New York Is Just Throwing Away Vaccines Rather Than Distributing Them Competently
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
The Year Teachers Unions Killed the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
The United States was virtually alone in keeping schools closed this fall. As a result, public education—and cities—may never look the same.
Government by 'Harrison Bergeron'
From pandemic relief to public schools, wealth taxes to COVID vaccines, politicians are finding bad ways to redistribute the pie.
Is There Hope for Libertarianism Within a Post-Election GOP?
This is not your older brother's "Libertarian Moment," caution Reason Roundtable podcasters.
Orthodox Jews Say They're Being Targeted by New NYC Lockdowns
The newest lockdown, which explicitly targets religious gatherings, seems likely to further skepticism of public health directives.
Resolve the 'Anarchist Jurisdictions' Dispute With Less Government Meddling
Peace will come only from leaving other people alone on the condition that they do the same for us.
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Delays School Reopening at the Last Minute, Infuriating Parents
He also refused to apologize.
De Blasio Orders Creation of Coronavirus Checkpoints To Interrogate Visitors to New York City
The city’s contact-tracing efforts don’t appear to be going well, so prepare for more top-down mandates with confusing justifications.
The Media Wants To Guilt-Trip Parents Over School 'Pods'
Worried about how the latest COVID-19 workaround might exacerbate inequality? Maybe open the damned elementary schools instead.
Andrew Cuomo's Coronavirus Response Has Been a Failure
The media's fawning interviews obscure the New York governor's record.
Mr. de Blasio: Open Up Those Elementary Schools!
We know now that young kids aren't particularly susceptible to catch, transmit, or suffer from Covid-19. Time to give them (and their parents) a break.
Don't Let the Pandemic Kill Religious Freedom
COVID-19 control measures violate the First Amendment when they arbitrarily favor secular conduct.
New York's Pandemic-Inspired Restrictions on Church and Synagogue Services Are Unconstitutional, a Federal Judge Rules
U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe finds that the state's COVID-19 control measures arbitrarily discriminate against religious conduct.
As New York City Reopens, Businesses Balance Public Health and Staying Afloat
Phase 2 of Bill de Blasio's plan lets 300,000 New Yorkers start working again. But not all of them will rush back to the office.
Democratic Leaders Praise George Floyd Protesters, Show Utter Contempt for Everyone Else Still in Lockdown
Bill de Blasio and Phil Murphy evince little sympathy for nail salon owners or Jewish mourners.
De Blasio Threatens To Arrest Hasidic Jews for Congregating To Mourn the Death of a Rabbi
On the same day Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews came out for a funeral, hundreds were gathering elsewhere in New York City to watch a military flyover.
Public Health Authorities Have Failed America at Every Level
They ignored early warning signs and pretended that everything would be OK.
3 Ways New York Botched the Coronavirus Response in March
A hapless mayor and overpraised governor made false promises, gave inaccurate health information, and helped turn Gotham into the pandemic's epicenter, according to The New York Times
How the Government Bungled the Coronavirus Response
"We have the capacity to keep this contained," Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers on March 2.
How Government Screwed Up Coronavirus Response
From masks to tests, suppression to stimulus, the Reason Roundtable podcast reviews the mistakes that got us to this precarious point.
New York Bans Gatherings of 500 People Unless They Are Children Penned in Enclosed Spaces
Scientists, teachers, and parents are asking: Why is one of the most coronavirus-impacted cities keeping its schools open "at all cost"?
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Wants to Use Commercial Rent Control to Save Small Businesses
City reports and industry find taxes, regulation, and permitting delays are often a bigger drag on small businesses than rising rents.
Bill de Blasio Exits the 2020 Democratic Presidential Race
Plus: The UAW is on strike, Josh Hawley meets with Mark Zuckerberg, and more...
It's Not a Mystery Why America's Biggest Cities Are Losing Population
Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City all have some easily identifiable management problems.
Bill de Blasio's Proposed 'Robot Tax' Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy
Forcing future Americans to do manual labor that could be automated isn't "saving" them from job losses. It's trapping them in jobs that could be made more efficient, more productive, and more rewarding.
De Blasio Advisory Group Wants To Abolish Gifted Classes in NYC Public Schools
"It was the year 2019, and everybody was finally equal."
The Debate Hecklers Were Right; the Officer Who Killed Eric Garner Should Be Punished
Chanters demand NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo's firing.
