The far-Left generates violence; the far-Right fulminates conspiracy.
The knee-jerk assumption among many Mamdani critics is that the mayor-elect will be a disaster for the NYPD. Commentators ...
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John Tierney is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. Tierney has significant experience in print and media, recently joining City Journal after more ...
As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani prepares to enter City Hall, he will need to transition from the work of campaigning to governing. The problems confronting the city—and Mamdani—are far bigger than his ...
The university’s since-abandoned DEI initiative onboarded left-wing professors.
Last week, New York City’s Department of Education announced the latest enrollment numbers for the city’s public schools. Another year of declines confirms an unsustainable trajectory—and highlights ...
On the campaign trail, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pledged to increase the city’s minimum hourly wage, from $16.50 to $30, by 2030. The increase would be phased in, with automatic annual hikes ...
The path to victory (and urban renewal) is a non-ideological, pragmatic focus on delivering basic city services.
Voters’ passage this week of key New York City Charter changes—which will shift certain powers over zoning from the city council to the mayor—was the work of the same coalition that elected Zohran ...
The eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books.