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For Comey and James, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
A federal judge tossed their indictments, but left open the door for the Justice Department to continue prosecuting them.
Jed Rubenfeld
Why New York City Has 50,000 ‘Ghost Apartments’
Mamdani’s ‘freeze the rent’ pledge misses the real problem. The rent that landlords can charge often doesn’t cover their costs.
Matt Miller
What Can Mayor Mamdani Actually Do?
Unconstrained by the governor or city council, quite a lot.
Maya Sulkin and Tanner Nau
Inside the Shadow Migrant Workforce Delivering New York’s Dinner
New York’s exploitative food delivery system goes unchallenged precisely because liberals have redefined ‘compassion’ as ignoring the law.
Sagnik Basu
Blue State Blues
I’m a social democrat who campaigned for Bernie—and I miss living in a red state.
River Page
The New York Mayoral Race: One Month Out
With just one month until election day, the chances of Mayor Mamdani are higher than ever. We break down the race together with Mark Halperin, Olivia…
Oliver Wiseman
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Mamdani’s Post-Woke Playbook
Once a fringe figure, the self-described socialist is now the face of a class-obsessed progressive politics—one New York’s governor just embraced.
Gregory Conti
Zohran Mamdani’s Identity Games
Questions arise about his Columbia application, a Hanukkah video, and his father’s comparison of the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
Olivia Reingold
Mamdani Botches the Math on Socialist Grocery Stores
The mayoral front-runner’s $140 million pledge is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city’s current grocery subsidies.
Timothy P. Carney
How the Yuppies Became Socialists
Fifty years ago, the professional managerial class swung right. Today, in America’s biggest cities, they’re voting for leftists like Zohran Mamdani…
River Page
Smells Like Green Spirit
New York City’s new eco-policy mixes food scraps with sewage and burns the result. It’s not what residents had in mind.
Josh Code
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