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My Socialist Mayor Part 2 Aug. 13, 2025
The Socialist politicians are coming! In Minneapolis, Democratic Socialist Omar Fateh is favored to ... Read More
My Socialist Mayor Aug. 06, 2025
I live in New York City. "Proud Democratic Socialist" Zohran Mamdani is likely to be my next mayor. ... Read More
MAGA to the Right of Us. MAGA to the Left Jul. 22, 2025
Zohran Mamdani's ideas are Bernie. But his political maneuvers are Donald. The similarities between ... Read More
Socialists Never Learn Jul. 01, 2025
Zohran Kwame Mamdani — the 33-year-old Ugandan-born son of a professor and movie director who,... Read More
Rent Control Is a Disaster. Don't Let It Spread Across the Nation. Oct. 11, 2023
America's renters — more than one-third of the nation's households — are in for trouble.... Read More
The Cost of Rent Control Jun. 15, 2022
Rents have reached record highs. But have no fear, renters! In the Minnesota cities of St. Paul and... Read More
The Wrong Remedies for High Gas Prices and Rents Mar. 16, 2022
Optimists, confronting adversity, are fond of saying that every problem is an opportunity. Pessimist... Read More
What I'd Do as NYC Mayor Jun. 18, 2021
New Yorkers go to the polls June 22 to choose their next mayor. They're primaries, but whoever wins ... Read More
A Legal Challenge to the Big Apple's Newest Rent-Control Laws Jul. 09, 2020
Government growth and abuses are not challenged nearly enough. This results in a proliferation of ba... Read More
Politicians Are Addicted to Price Controls Dec. 19, 2019
Despite overwhelming historical evidence demonstrating the folly of government-imposed price control... Read More
Dems Will Make Homelessness Worse Sep. 25, 2019
If Democrats capture the White House in 2020, your own neighborhood is likely to look like the disea... Read More
Statewide Rent Control Laws Cannot Escape the Law of Supply and Demand Mar. 07, 2019
Last week, Oregon became the first state in the nation to adopt a mandatory statewide rent control p... Read More
Harmful Cures for Government Failures Feb. 08, 2018
Illinois has made many contributions to America, but lately its biggest service is making other stat... Read More
Has Economics Failed? Nov. 01, 2016
It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern Californi... Read More
Politics Versus Reality: Part II Jun. 30, 2011
No one is more of a master of political talking points than President Barack Obama. Remember "s... Read More
