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Don't let Mamdani hike taxes on the rest of New York December 3, 2025
Sam Raus
If they knew what was good for them, New Yorkers would reject these legislative suggestions and send Mamdani back to the drawing board.
Mamdani asking for trouble, again November 21, 2025
Michael Letts
Whom will the new mayor of New York City pick to lead his police force?
New York Bleeds Out November 13, 2025
William Levin
It’s the beginning of the end for the Big Apple.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Mamdani Wolf? Not me! November 12, 2025
Joan Swirsky
We’ve seen this movie before.
Mamdani promises excellence, signals collapse November 8, 2025
David DeMay
The promise of ‘excellence’ is the sound of the political machine straining against an impossible structural load.
Revolution Comes to New York City November 7, 2025
Greg Salsbury
This election wasn’t about free food; it was about something much more profound...and dangerous.
Mamdani Deserves A Long Rope November 7, 2025
Arnold Cusmariu
Let’s cut the guy some slack—and whatever you do, don’t call him a socialist, a communist, or an antisemite.
The Unprovoked Past: Why History Is Not Ours to Toy With November 5, 2025
Christian Vezilj
The people of New York have voted for socialism, not as a theory, but as a governing reality.
A post-election analysis: This is not the end of the world November 5, 2025
Andrea Widburg
...although it may be the end of New York City.
Requiem For Gotham November 5, 2025
Eric Utter
This is the beginning of the end for New York City, and another Islamic nail in the West’s coffin.
Will anyone rescue New York City from its dark destiny this time? November 4, 2025
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Fifty years ago, people who understood how money works stepped in to save the city.
You can vote for Cuomo in New York City without selling your soul November 2, 2025
Andrea Widburg
A chapter in the biblical story of Abraham suggests that it is not immoral to choose the lesser of two evils.
A Tale of Four Cities October 30, 2025
J. Robert Smith
Stopping the advance of "social democrats and Islamists needs to be prioritized by common-sense Americans.
Mamdani says there should be no billionaires October 31, 2025
Bert Peterson
And how exactly do we prevent them from springing up?
Let’s not save the Dems this time October 30, 2025
J.R. Dunn
Why, exactly, should the GOP and the MAGA movement waste time, effort, and political capital to prevent the Democrats from throwing themselves off the cliff?
Defund Mamdani October 22, 2025
Robin M. Itzler
If Mamdani wins, New York City will go from a beleaguered police force to a nonexistent one.
What’s Really Missing in the New York Mayor Race October 22, 2025
Jeffrey Folks
Yes, communism is bad. But this is worse.
The Glorious Coming Lessons of the Mamdani Landslide October 22, 2025
John Conlin
That famous curmudgeon H.L. Mencken said it well: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Mamdani Thinks New Yorkers Are Stupid and Unworthy October 22, 2025
Linda R. Killian
So will they vote for him?
Misunderstanding Mamdani October 20, 2025
Gene Schwimmer
There won’t be a Giuliani to succeed the socialist frontrunner in New York’s mayorship.
I’ve got a plan for that October 20, 2025
John Conlin
History is littered with the calamities created by those with little knowledge but great certainty.
Nobody touched Mamdani October 17, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
Mandani will fail and embolden the crazies.
New York City could have a Republican mayor again October 18, 2025
Bob Weir
Are you as tired as I am of reading about election polls that tell me who is going to win long before the votes are cast?
Keep New York City From Becoming New Marx City October 8, 2025
Robin M. Itzler
There’s only one serious candidate who hasn’t already caused thousands to die and who doesn’t advocate an ideology that has caused tens of millions of deaths.
Wise Up, New Yorkers! An Unabashed Paean to Curtis Sliwa September 30, 2025
Stu Tarlowe
Sliwa is the real deal, a man who cares deeply about New York City and its residents, while Andrew Cuomo is a morally corrupt Democrat operative.
Is George Will cruel or smart to wish Zohran Mamdani on New Yorkers? August 10, 2025
Andrea Widburg
I happen to think he’s right because Democrats need to experience their ideology in action, and the rest of America needs to watch this lesson play out.
Can Mamdani actually accomplish what he wants? August 8, 2025
Roberta Cole
Or is he just full of empty words?
Hunger in Plain Sight August 3, 2025
Jason Cooper
If the New York Times could virtue signal more efficiently by claiming the Jews bake the blood of non-Jews into their matzah crackers then so be it, it would.
Elect Curtis Sliwa New York City Mayor July 30, 2025
Robin M. Itzler
Curtis Sliwa CAN win New York City’s mayoral race in November.
Convenient: Zohran Mamdani now stands with police July 31, 2025
Michael Letts
Look at his record, and the shocking things he’s said about cops, and you’ll see the truth.
Mamdani’s bigoted history keeps catching up with him July 12, 2025
Jim Davis
Italians are joining Jews in getting sick of this guy.
You’re Not A Vigilante If You Prevent A Crime In Process July 5, 2025
Paul C. Binotto
We need more people like the men who saved a woman being assaulted on New York City’s subway, so they shouldn’t be tarred as “vigilantes.”
A Big, Fat Liar July 5, 2025
Jeffrey Folks
Zohran Mamdani has admitted listing his race as ‘black’ on a college admission form. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
With Zohran Mamdani On The Cusp of Becoming Mayor, NYC Embraces Its Own Demise July 2, 2025
Vince Coyner
The fact that he is a communist in the heart of capitalism is bad enough, but his Islamic faith in a leadership role means doom for a free society.
Mamdani Hopes to Drive Jews out of New York City June 30, 2025
Susan Quinn
When pressed, he claims he’s not an antisemite, but his pronouncements about Jews and Israel ooze antisemitism.
Zohran Mamdani Represents The Democrat Party’s Inevitable Drift Left June 30, 2025
Steve McCann
Those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.
New York City Ups the Ante on Madness June 28, 2025
Eileen F. Toplansky
If Zohran Mamdani becomes the mayor of the Big Apple, the rot will reach levels we have never seen before.
We’ve talked about Zohran Mamdani’s leftism; let’s talk about his Islamism now June 29, 2025
Andrea Widburg
If anything, it’s worse than his leftism is.
If Mamdani wins, NYC’s police have no intention of dying in the name of social justice June 29, 2025
Andrea Widburg
The police are drawing a line: If he wins, they leave.
Democrats Veer Hard Left June 27, 2025
Douglas Schwartz
As the Democrats approach terminal collapse, New York City mayoral primary voters unsurprisingly selected 33-year-old Uganda native and Africana studies major Zohran Kwame Mamdani a “socialist” and intifada supporter.
In Its Own Way, Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Nomination Is A Miracle June 26, 2025
Stu Tarlowe
Something extraordinary just happened in New York City, although, unlike Miracle on 34th Street, it doesn’t bode well for anybody.
Have Jewish Democrats finally gotten the memo? June 26, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
There are many angles to what happened last Tuesday night in New York City.
I guess the commie must be in New York City June 25, 2025
Silvio Canto, Jr.
New York City Democrat primary voters decided to nominate the lefty of lefties as their candidate for mayor.
The Democrat Socialist clinches a win in New York City June 26, 2025
Earick Ward
New York voters jumped the frying pan a long time ago. Now they’re just going even deeper into the fire.
New York’s Big Apple could be replaced with a hammer and sickle June 26, 2025
Robin M. Itzler
Perhaps it was a protest vote against Cuomo the COVID Killer, so there may still be hope for the November election—but New Yorkers need to be smart.
A shock poll suggests that the Marxist-Muslim Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s next mayor June 23, 2025
Andrea Widburg
Unless New Yorkers rouse themselves, the once-great city could be in for a world of hurt.
Muslim women forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots score a $17.5 million win from NYC taxpayers April 8, 2024
Olivia Murray
The Sharia colonization of the West continues.
Is New York City Really Dead? March 11, 2024
Alicia Colon
Electing new leaders could reverse the decline.
Pro-Hamas protestors shut down New York's Grand Central November 11, 2023
Monica Showalter
Why is the city letting them get away with this?
Failed: New York City is a Collective Slum October 4, 2023
Civis Americanus
Housing shortages mean residents are being encouraged to move into single-room occupancy tenements, like the bad old days.
Incompetent teachers get rich, kids suffer July 17, 2023
Thomas Lifson
Bill de Blasio's malign mayoralty condemned generations of New York schoolchildren to incompetent teachers.
NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams sues over botched election count July 1, 2021
Thomas Lifson
A genuine nightmare is brewing for Democrats, as the laughably incompetent administration of last week's primary election for mayor of New York City proves the need for election integrity measures being demanded by Republicans.
Does Curtis Sliwa have a chance to be the next mayor of New York City? June 23, 2021
David Zukerman
The media may write off the chances of any Republican, yet who is likely to be perceived by the public to be the law and order/quality of life candidate: any Democrat or Curtis?
NYC progressives uniting behind a rich hypocrite for mayor June 20, 2021
Thomas Lifson
It's like a female Black Bill DeBlasio with an extra helping of Soros.
New York City educators fired for not performing the Black power 'Wakanda Forever' salute February 24, 2021
John Dietrich
Unfortunately, it is necessary to explain that what is to follow is not satire.
NYC's new police commissioner challenges the Left, confirming NY's new bail laws have caused an explosion in crime January 25, 2020
Peter Barry Chowka
This theater of the absurd policy continues because leftist Democrats have been reduced to seeking support — and votes — from constituents in urban environments who know someone, a family member or a friend, who is locked up
Blue city values: Free diplomas for truants in Bill de Blasio's New York City October 26, 2019
Monica Showalter
These are the schools where Asian-American high achievers are being asked to attend on affirmative action grounds instead of the city's elite schools.
De Blasio's NYC bans use of words 'illegal alien' said supposedly in 'hate' September 27, 2019
Monica Showalter
Making New York Cuba — which, incidentally, is the sort of place real illegal aliens won't go to.
Man claims NYC officials are abetting neighbor's theft of his property April 9, 2019
Selwyn Duke
In Brooklyn, a man claims that New York City officials are abetting his neighbor's theft of his property, based on a disturbing series of events.
Deep blue New York City looking at bankruptcy after a five-year socialist wallow March 10, 2019
Monica Showalter
Funny how socialist spending sprees always end with running out of other people's money...
Wife of a Liberal Senator Gets ‘Mugged by Reality’ December 9, 2018
Taylor Lewis
Tells regulators to stop trying to help her
Brooklyn synagogue vandalism suspect a perfect exemplar of political correctness November 4, 2018
Thomas Lifson
Dem posturing against Trump’s climate of hate comes to screeching halt as LGBTQ suspect was called the adoptive child of “the entire City Council staff” and an intern in anti-hate crime work, sympathetically profiled in the New York Times.
New York City Council committee votes to name street after genocidal black leader who killed thousands of whites August 2, 2018
Thomas Lifson
There seems to be nobody on the left who is willing to speak out against the madness.
Sunday Schadenfreude: Seems working for socialist Comrade de Blasio isn't much fun for a SJW July 29, 2018
Monica Showalter
A social justice warrior is amazed to find out how socialism works in Bill de Blasio's New York.
Another New York Blackout: Evading Walpurgisnacht July 14, 2017
Marion DS Dreyfus
So what was New York City like when the lights went out Thursday afternoon?
Daring Dog urinates on Fearless Girl May 31, 2017
Ed Straker
In the art wars, it's all a matter of whose ox is being gored.
De Blasio rift with NYPD could cost NYC the Democratic Convention January 2, 2015
Thomas Lifson
New York City is going to pay a very high price for electing Bill de Blasio mayor.
The New York Tobacco Party December 20, 2014
Robert T. Smith
Spearheaded by one Eric Garner. Shall we call the man a patriot?
Another liberal magazine falls for hoax that confirms its agenda December 16, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Multiculturalist orgasms rudely interrupted by basic fact-checking.
New York to launch taxpayer-funded 'shame campaign' against guys who sit wrong November 20, 2014
Drew Belsky
Sit-shaming. Another stellar example of feminist priorities.
The Radical Egalitarian Assault on the Big Apple July 30, 2014
Robert Weissberg
The plan is simple: kick out hard working Asians, many of whom are below the poverty line, from the city's academically elite high schools, and replace them with blacks and Hispanics
Buyers' remorse in NYC as De Blasio polling tanks March 7, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Just wait until his policies drive the rich people out
New York City: A Pay More, Get Less Sinkhole February 15, 2014
William A. Levinson
If New York has no use for us, then we have no use for New York.
At the Manhattan Inauguration January 18, 2014
Marion DS Dreyfus
DeBlasio readies his knife and fork.
The National Marriage Act of 2015 and ObamaMatch.com January 6, 2014
Lee Cary
All this is, of course, for the good of the nation.
Following the money in De Blasio's horse-drawn carriage ban January 6, 2014
Thomas Lifson
If you think it's about "animal cruelty" you're not cynical enough.
Life on the New York City Plantation January 3, 2014
Ethel C. Fenig
The people of New York spoke and elected proud far out lefty (no, that is not "progressive") Bill de Blasio (D) as mayor. Will they be punished?
A Bible and a Stonewall January 3, 2014
Victor Keith
The Fates cackle at Bill DeBlasio's inauguration.
Likeminded Clintons to Swear In Radical Bill de Blasio December 31, 2013
Jeannie DeAngelis
For almost 50 years, Bill and Hillary have worked hard to camouflage the truth about their radical roots.
In New York City, the Perfect Storm is Building November 30, 2013
William F. Dement
New York City has experienced over twenty years of decreasing crime rates. Under Bill DiBlasio, this golden age will come to an end.
De Blasio and the "Heavy Hand of Government" November 19, 2013
Victor Keith
Da Mayor lays it on the line.
Social Services and the Free Lunch Fallacy November 8, 2013
Robert Weissberg
A dangerous disconnect between ordinary consumer behavior and cravings for government benefits
Ruling class Princess Chelsea Clinton September 23, 2013
Thomas Lifson
The rise of a ruling class at the intersection of business and politics is the most explosive political issue of our time that remains tacit.
My Race August 24, 2013
William L. Gensert
The first black person I met in my life robbed me at Yankee Stadium when I was 8 years old.
Scheindlin's List August 14, 2013
William L. Gensert
A liberal judge once again looks out for the interests of New York City blacks.
The betrayal of Anthony Weiner? (updated) July 31, 2013
Thomas Lifson
He has taken to bemoaning a betrayal by "people I trusted when I communicated with them." He doesn't mean the Clintons, at least not yet.
Weiner and the Gray Lady's Hypocrisy July 24, 2013
J. Robert Smith
Why apply different standards to Anthony Weiner than to Bill Clinton?
The Bullet that Brought My Father to America July 10, 2013
Edward Bernard Glick
The debate on amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants brings to mind something that happened to me when I was 16.
Holder, the AP, and CIA: Subpoena Subterfuge? May 23, 2013
Jason Kissner
What did the Obama administration have to lose?
Bloomberg's Progressive Kosher Kitchen February 28, 2013
Fay Voshell
The Left delights in ridiculing fundamentalists and Mormons about their tee-totaling ways and chaste life styles. But maybe they should take a look at their own religious practices and food laws, which they are forcing on everyone
Three in the Head December 28, 2012
William L. Gensert
I carried a gun in New York City for more than a decade -- back when there were thousands of murders a year and the Bronx led the nation in killings. On at least 4 occasions, that gun saved my life, and in a couple of instances, the lives of people who were with me.


