Mamdani's Socialist Mayorship Will Make New York a Worse Place To Live and Do Business
His plans to offer "free" buses and daycare, freeze rents, and create city-owned grocery stores are expensive and proven failures.
His plans to offer "free" buses and daycare, freeze rents, and create city-owned grocery stores are expensive and proven failures.
Billions of dollars are at stake in New York City’s mayoral election.
Plus: The rise of Luddite clubs, Defense Department struggles to respond to questions on legality of boat strikes, and more...
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open government-run grocery stores would waste taxpayer money solving a problem NYC doesn’t have.
Plus: "Freeze the rent" hypocrisy, B-52s near Caracas, the Armani class votes Mamdani, and more...
The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.
The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.
Plus: World Cup ticket prices and more government meddling in soccer
Desperate New York influencers try to shame the longtime local activist out of the mayoral race, so that a disgraced former governor can again lose to Zohran Mamdani
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.
As rental prices in New York City soar, tenant activists are demanding that the government stop landlords from increasing the rent on regulated apartments.
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
After restaurant delivery drivers quit in droves and costs soared, the city is expanding minimum wage rules to grocery couriers.
Plus: New York's expensive new stove regulations, Los Angeles rent controls, and the housing policy implications of a federal shutdown.
Plus: the Comey indictment, Trump deploys the National Guard to Portland, Eric Adams exits New York City's mayoral race, and a listener asks about cyclical theories of history
A previous pilot program found free access slowed down buses in New York City, which already has the slowest buses in the nation.
The latest ruling reminds us that terrorism statutes are mostly redundant.
In New York City, just one in six cigarette packs collected by researchers came through legal channels.
A newly renovated wing at the Met showcases culture and history from Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.
Several Lone Star cities are attempting to undermine new state-level zoning reforms by requiring new apartment buildings come with ritzy amenities.
The city that artists built now wants them to pay up.
The Guardian Angels founder and New York mayoral candidate talks about crime, drugs, zoning, and what the government could learn from squatters.
Plus: Eric Adams drop-out watch, DOJ investigates Lisa Cook, critiquing Blueskyism, and more...
Plus: Curtis Sliwa hit piece, China's military parade, Florida's vaccine mandates, and more...
The president's plan to promote public safety by deploying troops in cities across the country is hard to reconcile with constitutional constraints on federal authority.
The Guardian Angels founder battles Zohran Mamdani for the anti-establishment vote while he fights Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo for the anti-socialist vote.
Big city mayors' progressive ambitions are on a collision course with fiscal reality.
The roughly 25-inch plot has a mosaic reading, "Property of the Hess estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes."
From free buses to rent control, their big promises ignore the hard lessons of socialism’s failures.
Plus: Why Blackstone is good, actually, and a Georgia judge rules for tiny homes.
The author and psychologist joins the show to breakdown the Zohran Mamdani campaign, among other fads.
Socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. On the contrary, it's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried.
Once a champion of school choice, New York’s mayor has caved to union pressure—leaving tens of thousands of students stuck on waitlists.
Financial historian and attorney Richard E. Farley explains how political games, union power, and creative accounting tanked New York City in 1975—and why it could happen again.
Despite record seizures and restrictive laws, New York City has struggled to stem the tide of untraceable firearms.
Plus: Wildfires alter air quality across the Northeast, fertility crisis narratives, and more...
The Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City challenges decades of sanctuary policies and local independence.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan blamed the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer on the policies of sanctuary cities like New York.
Plus: Etan Patz case conviction overturned, Catholic bikers visit Alligator Alcatraz, and more...
Plus: City-run grocery stores, Peronists for prison, California can't figure out how minimum wage hikes work, and more...
One immigration judge referred to an ICE attorney as merely “Department” during a hearing.
Tune in on July 15 at 6:20 p.m. Eastern to hear four co-hosts' unflinching critiques of the latest in politics, culture, and whatever fresh hell awaits us all.
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