You log into [insert social media platform of choice], in the mood for the latest news, your friends’ baby pics, a few outlandish opinions. But have you considered what the state commissioner of mental hygiene has to say about that? If lawmakers in New York and Minnesota get their way, social media users will be […]
The TSA ends its stupidest rule ever after 20 years of pointlessness: The Transportation Security Administration has started to phase out its rule requiring travelers to take off their shoes before going through security after, oh, just 20 years of forcing everyone to show off their ugly toenails in public. Per The New York Times, “the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Is Eric Adams actually a good orator? “This is a city not of socialism,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a speech yesterday, referring to his challenger Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the Democratic primary. “I’ve been to socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as a dishwasher and you […]
For many New Yorkers, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not an exciting prospect. The likely winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary—the votes aren’t all counted yet, though the outcome is now a foregone conclusion—is a democratic socialist who subscribes to a whole host of city-ruining political positions. He would like to dismantle New York City’s selective school […]
Does Zohran Mamdani’s win have implications for other Dems? “Nearly 20 incumbent House Democrats who are either running for reelection or haven’t announced their 2026 plans are facing at least one primary challenger,” reports Axios. Democrats across the nation and in Congress in particular are trying to figure out whether to read socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New […]
Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York Democratic Mayoral Primary on Tuesday puts the self-proclaimed socialist one step closer to enacting his far-ranging left-wing agenda. At the top of the candidate’s list, as Reason‘s Liz Wolfe covered this morning, is his call to freeze rents on New York’s roughly one million rent-stabilized housing units. […]
New York is jockeying to build the first advanced nuclear power plant in the nation. On Monday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced that she was directing “the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power generation to its aging fleet of reactors,” reports The Wall Street Journal. This […]