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Mamdani Can’t Ruin New York

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Can Florida and Ohio Kill Property Taxes?

J.D. Vance on the nature of power

Does AI Know How You Will Die?

The Return of Polymarket

Trump’s Drug Strategy Excuses Murder as Self-Defense

Is Your Wi-Fi Router a National Security Threat?

Why Did D.C. Reinstall a Confederate Statue?

The Deportation Playlist Is Mostly Stolen

Q&A Katie Herzog

Does Section 230 Protect AI?

You Have the Right To Record ICE

Bill Gates Cools the Climate Debate

Trump’s Bureaucratic War on Immigrants

MAMDANI’S SOCIALIST HOUSING PLAN COULD CRASH NEW YORK’S RICKETY RENTAL MARKET • EVEN IN ONE OF THE MOST REGULATED CITIES IN THE COUNTRY, PROGRESSIVES BLAME THE FREE MARKET.

THE TWO FACES OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI • MAMDANI ACTUALLY WANTS MORE HOUSING TO BE BUILT.

MAMDANI’S EDUCATION AGENDA FOR LESS LEARNING • NEW YORK SCHOOLS NEED MORE CHOICE AND BETTER CURRICULA, BUT THE CITY’S NEW MAYOR WANTS TO TAKE CHOICES AWAY.

A MAXIMALIST VISION OF MAYORAL POWER • WILL LINA KHAN PUSH THE NEW YORK MAYOR TO GET CREATIVE WITH EXPANDING HIS POWER?

ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S PRICES CRISES • THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST WASN’T RUNNING ON TRUE “AFFORDABILITY.” HE RAN AGAINST PRICES.

WILL MAMDANI DEFUND THE POLICE? • THE NEW MAYOR IS KEEPING POLICE COMMISSIONER JESSICA TISCH ON THE JOB, BUT THEY MIGHT HAVE A CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP.

3 REASONS MAMDANI’S CITY-RUN GROCERY STORES WILL FAIL • ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S PLAN TO OPEN GOVERNMENT-RUN GROCERY STORES WOULD WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY SOLVING A PROBLEM THE CITY DOESN’T HAVE.

MAMDANI CAN’T RAISE YOUR KIDS • THE MORE THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENES IN THE MARKET, THE MORE NEW YORK PARENTS PAY FOR CHILD CARE.

MEET ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S INNER CIRCLE • MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE ARE ON HIS RADICAL, BUREAUCRATIC TRANSITION TEAM.

What Is the National Guard Doing in D.C.?

Ayn Rand, the Video Game • “WHAT DOES COMPLETELY, COMPLETELY UNREGULATED COMMERCE LOOK LIKE?” KEN LEVINE’S BIOSHOCK WILL TELL YOU.

IT’S MERCY OTIS WARREN VS. THE BLOCKHEADS!

How the FCC Became the Speech Police • THE CONSTITUTIONALLY ANOMALOUS STATUS OF BROADCASTING INVITES GOVERNMENT MEDDLING.

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The Long Road Home • The Wounded Generation examines the aftermath of the “good war.”

Superintelligent AI Is Not Coming To Kill You

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