Join us on July 15 at 6:20 E.T. to hear from Reason‘s Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch for a live episode of The Reason Roundtable from New York City. It will be a night of unscripted, uncensored, and unhinged conversation about whatever the hell is happening in America this week—including the bizarre reality […]
Set aside for a moment the real estate price controls, the government groceries, even the growing stack of missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence—New York mayoral Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani this week reminded us anew about the awfulness of his candidacy by receiving the enthusiastic endorsement of (shudder) the local teachers union. “[Mamdani] […]
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s newly minted candidate to be the next mayor of New York City, found himself in some hot water last week after The New York Times reported that he claimed to be both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his college application to Columbia University in 2009. Mamdani holds U.S. […]
Is Zohran Mamdani’s success in New York politics the mark of socialist resurgence or just a reflection of a deeply fractured party base? Zach Weissmueller is joined by two very concerned New Yorkers. Our own Liz Wolfe and Inez Stepman, who’s a policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum. Stepman critiques the ideological cocktail attracting […]
A Staten Island family has been fighting the city tooth and nail for the right to keep “Lucy,” a beloved pet pygmy pig. Now the government has relented. For almost 15 years, Lucy has resided with the Gannones, her adopted family, in peaceful harmony. But in June, “the pig was subject to an anonymous 311 […]
Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani just won New York City’s mayoral primary, and, in a city crawling with Democrats who like free stuff, he’s the favorite to win November’s general election, replacing Eric Adams. Mamdani—a 33-year-old Bowdoin graduate, with a multimillionaire filmmaker mother and a Columbia-professor father—styles himself a champion for the working class, someone […]
There are a lot of reasons why Zohran Mamdani surged to a surprise victory in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor. His opponent was former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a tired, old, corrupt, creepy symbol of the feckless Democratic establishment. The cost of living and, in particular, housing, in New York […]
Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary partly on his plan to open five city-owned grocery stores—one in each of New York’s boroughs. The idea is as absurd as it sounds, but it’s a useful lens through which to view another government-run institution we’ve accepted for far too long: the public school system. […]
The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994, by Thomas Mallon, Knopf, 592 pages, $40 Writing in 1985, arguably the worst year of the AIDS crisis, the leftist columnist Christopher Hitchens attacked closeted gays who preached right-wing politics. Once “out” (or in many cases “outed”), Hitchens argued, these onetime conservatives would “evolve politically” and […]
In the recently concluded Democratic primary for New York City mayor, state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani emerged victorious, beating out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, among others, for the nomination. One proposal that galvanized both supporters and opponents was Mamdani’s plan to open five city-owned grocery stores—one in each borough. In a campaign video, he called the […]
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