New York politics
November 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As we await the results of today’s (or this month’s) New York City mayor election, this data point is illuminating. From the Unleash Prosperity Hotline: Is New York the world’s financial capital? Not so much. It has nearly three times as many residents employed in health care and social work. The Economist writes: The share of New York City’s workers employed in finance and insurance has been in decline for
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November 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
All signs point to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City tomorrow. The New York Post makes a valiant last stand against him in the editorial “20 reasons to vote against NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.” However, 750,000 votes have reportedly been cast in early voting before election day and the opposition to Mamdani is both divided and weak. Mamdani has already become the new
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October 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Even from a distance it is painful to observe the rise of Zohran Mamdani. I’d love to see a reboot of Mad Men that told the inside story à la Veep, but without the laughs. Maybe a few giggles, as the Mamd man demonstrates the limits of socialism in one city. Mamdani held a big rally in Forest Hills over the weekend. Among the Mamd Men were Senator Bernie Sanders,
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August 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Today’s New York Post cover story reports on the carnival of alleged corruption surrounding New York Mayor Eric Adams. The story is based on indictments secured by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in state court yesterday — so handle them with care. Bragg has posted a related press release and statement of facts. The indictments serve up a “diverse” cocktail of money, politics, illegal immigration, municipal regulatory agencies, and show
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August 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post strikes again with its cover featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren meeting with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail yesterday. The cover reads African American Meets Native American. And it adds: Mamdani and Warren in liars’ summit. The cover flags the story by David DeTurris and Matt Troutman: “Far left Sen. Warren gushes over NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — as other high-profile
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July 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Partnership for New York City represents the heart of the city’s corporate community. The group’s members find the rise of Zohran Mamdani worrisome. The group invited him to a closed meeting on Tuesday. Three Wall Street Journal reporters interviewed some who attended to figure out who said what to whom. The Journal’s story ran under the headline “Mamdani Clarifies ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Stance in Meeting With Business Elites.” Several prominent
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June 26, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Zohran Mamdani now stands on the threshold of election to the mayoralty of New York City. John Podhoretz assesses his victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in six numbered propositions. John calls his assessment “The threat of Zohran Mamdani.” Here are paragraphs 3-5 of John’s six propositions: * * * * * 3. Next to Minnesota’s Keith Ellison, who has run and won statewide twice for attorney general, Mamdani got more
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April 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma Prof Emeritus at the University of Chicago and a contributor to many of the respectable publications we follow. It is gratifying to see him taking note of “The curious case of Ilhan Omar,” as I called it back in 2016 when we broke the story of Omar’s marriage to her brother on Power Line. In the field of fraud and corruption, Omar performed
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April 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post has a classic cover to flag the story “Trump administration refers NY AG Letitia James for potential prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud.” Josh Christenson and Victor Nava report: New York Attorney General Letitia James — who infamously declared that “no one is above the law” when she was targeting Donald Trump — was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on
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November 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan below 60th Street. The canceled plan set a $15 toll to get the job done, whatever it is. Hochul has now revised the plan to set the toll at $9, thus saving commuters 40 percent, or $1500 annually. You may be wondering how you can get in on the action. This is a funnier bit than Saturday Night
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September 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York City, presides over an administration that has been disastrous in nearly every way. A federal corruption investigation has led to the indictment of a number of members of the Adams administration. Today, the (presumably) final shoe dropped: Adams himself has been indicted: Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe that has shaken his
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September 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Siena College New York poll isn’t particularly favorable for Donald Trump, despite Lee Zeldin’s optimism. Harris leads Trump in the Siena poll, 52%-40%. But the cross tabs are intensely interesting, especially the religious breakdown: Conservatives have been waiting for Jews to wake up and start voting their interests for a long time. Events of the last year have finally disrupted old voting patterns: New York Jews now favor Trump
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June 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Squad man Jamaal Bowman held a sort of last-stand rally in the South Bronx — why the South Bronx?– with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this past weekend. Having asked around about the Westchester County towns designated by Bowman in his effusion, I take it that Bowman simply disapproves of heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Why he singles out Jewish neighborhoods for scorn isn’t hard to discern, but what a disgrace. In
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June 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
It’s hard to find a video clip that fully captures the degraded madness of Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s rally with Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in the South Bronx yesterday. Let’s go with the clip tweeted out by Rep. Ritchie Torres. After all, the rally took place in his district. Was Bowman trolling for illegal votes? The level of profanity here is so shocking as to be unbecoming of a Member
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September 15, 2023 — John Hinderaker
New York has long been a “sanctuary city,” but when busloads of illegal immigrants began showing up, that changed rapidly. Mayor Eric Adams says that the presence of 58,000 or so illegal immigrants threatens to destroy the city, and blames the Biden administration. He’s right about that. A group of New York pols that included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gerald Nadler, and others toured the Roosevelt Hotel, epicenter of the fiasco, and
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September 7, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The headline isn’t strictly accurate, but remember when Trump or some Trumpster supposedly said uncontrolled immigration would lead to a taco truck on every corner? Well, New York’s hapless Mayor Adams, who presides over a virtuous “sanctuary city,” now says that continued uncontrolled arrival of migrants will “destroy New York City” and its surrounding suburbs, which is implicit confirmation of Trump’s immigration stand in 2016. He and other Democrats whose
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February 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As states increasingly segregate into red and blue, California, New York, Texas and Florida are the heavyweight contenders. (Although, don’t forget poor Illinois.) A year ago I had the good fortune to hear Governor Ron DeSantis give a speech to a Minnesota group in Naples, Florida. DeSantis said something that I thought couldn’t possibly be correct: that Florida has more people than New York, with a state budget only half
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