New York City Is About To Elect a Socialist Mayor in Zohran Mamdani. Why Won't This Failed Ideology Die?
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: Predictions for Mamdani's mayorship, ICE leadership changes, and more...
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
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's photo ops, hearings on Caribbean boat strikes, how the pandemic changed the world, and more...
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.
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's bus plan makes no sense, Kristi Noem's description of antifa makes no sense, and more...
A previous pilot program found free access slowed down buses in New York City, which already has the slowest buses in the nation.
Several Lone Star cities are attempting to undermine new state-level zoning reforms by requiring new apartment buildings come with ritzy amenities.
Big city mayors' progressive ambitions are on a collision course with fiscal reality.
From free buses to rent control, their big promises ignore the hard lessons of socialism’s failures.
Socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. On the contrary, it's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried.
If Zohran Mamdani turns socialist rhetoric into policy, New York’s financial giants may not stick around to see how that plays out.
Democrats are politicking as if their COVID-era derangements don't matter.
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for state-run supermarkets exposes the inefficiencies of state-run education.
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.
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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