The Socialist Transit Plan That Could Break NYC
There’s no such thing as a free bus.
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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.
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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.
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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.
A widely reported study relies on weak data, inaccurate statistics, and misleading references to support its claims.
Democrats are politicking as if their COVID-era derangements don't matter.
The big problem here is the elite racism of college admissions departments, not the mayoral candidate's creative box-checking.
How did Zohran Mamdani’s rise happen, and what does it tell us about the future of the Democratic Party?
The owners faced fines of up to $18,000 for keeping the pig within city limits.
To the socialist mind, families are not forces for good; they’re competitors to the state.
A clever viral video helps explains the appeal of the Democratic Party's nominee for mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for state-run supermarkets exposes the inefficiencies of state-run education.
The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative histories—tend to ignore.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to open city-owned grocery stores. The U.S. already has a few, and they're a cautionary tale.
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The presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York has repeatedly missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence.
Mamdani's socialism is unacceptable, but the former governor is himself unacceptable.
Plus: Teachers union thinks your kids belong to them, more Jerome Powell antagonism, and more...
The city's specialized high schools are one of the lone bright spots of its struggling public school system.
The democratic socialist's proposed "public option" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the market.
Allegedly sane, centrist opponents of New York City's socialist mayoral candidate are all too happy to regulate rental housing into the ground.
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Plus: the tush push, Pete Rose, and Eddie Vedder.
A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the problem goes far beyond New York City.
Plus: Yetis, The Seat, and a political letter that will make your eyes roll.
How pot bureaucrats used legal weed to push their social justice agenda
We're hemorrhaging our child population for a reason.
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