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    Mamdani Promised Affordability. His New Amazon Delivery Plan Could Make NYC More Expensive.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again using a big corporation as an easy target in a scheme that will likely make New York City more unaffordable, not less. On Monday, the socialist mayor announced the so-called Delivery Protection Act—which received significant union backing—that will allegedly be used to “rein in the power…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Slams Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax as Judge Halts Implementation
    President Donald Trump slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax on certain second properties in a Tuesday post on Truth Social and threatened federal action. The president said the tax “is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mamdani Blames E-Bike Sellers for Crisis He Refuses to Police
    When real-world problems arise, you can always count on socialists to fall back on blaming their old ideological bugaboos rather than addressing them head on. That appears to be the case in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been forced to deal with an escalating problem of e-bike fatalities. You can guess who…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mamdani Releases Video Demonizing Landlords. But He Is NYC’s Biggest Slumlord of All.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a slick video this week portraying landlords as villains and housing advocates along with their government allies as heroes. But the truth is that Mamdani and the government are by far the biggest slumlords in the city and increasing public ownership, as he clearly intends, will only further…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mamdani Purges Business Leaders to Cement Socialist Control of NYC
    When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he intended to govern as a socialist, he meant it. And he is doing what any dedicated communist does when he rises to power: purge the kulaks, promote the apparatchiks. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Mamdani had eliminated all the businessmen and various other civic leaders from…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mamdani Backtracks on IDs for Marxist Marts
    New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is on a crusade for government control in his latest push for government-run grocery stores. Such stores have been attempted and failed before, and no amount of government subsidization will change the fact that these Marxist Marts are a taxpayer-financed disaster. Like any public program, they will…
    Nicole Huyer
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    Victor Davis Hanson: New York’s Property Tax Crackdown Is Just the Beginning
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, has just stirred up a lot of controversy. He said that he wanted to go after property owners who had…
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    New York Immigrant Business Coalition Threatens Lawsuit Over Mamdani’s Government-Owned Grocery Stores
    A coalition of immigrant business owners has threatened New York City with a lawsuit over planned government-owned grocery stores they say will unfairly undermine their businesses. On Monday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would move forward with building a series of government-owned grocery stores and promised a 30% discount on certain staple…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Strange Alliance Between Islam and Socialism
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Mamdani’s Tax List Reveals the Dark Side of Socialist Class Warfare
    It should be no surprise that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not only wants to tax the rich but dox them too. On Monday, New York’s Department of Finance published a searchable database of properties that could fall under New York’s new so-called pied-à-terre tax on second homes in the city. The New York…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mamdani Announces City-Run Grocery Stores Will Offer 30% Discount. Critics Say It Will Crush Local Businesses.
    New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that a “core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal grocery stores.” Mamdani’s stated goal is to open city-owned grocery stores in each of New York City’s five boroughs. The 30% discount at the stores would apply to customers of every…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Why Mamdani’s Netanyahu Arrest Plan Has No Legal Basis
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Friday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, let’s turn to the International Criminal Court. And [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani wants to enforce its…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Democratic Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass Murderer Mao Zedong
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   We’re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    DSA’s Dark Triumph: Socialism Surges as America Turns 250 
    On the very day America marked its 250th birthday—a celebration of liberty, enterprise, and individual rights—the Democratic Socialists of America notched a grim milestone. With more than 120,000 members and chapters in all 50 states, DSA is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history. While fireworks lit the skies, radical progressive Democrats were busy burying the republic’s founding principles…
    Rep. Randy Fine
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    Erasing Little Italy Is About More Than a Map
    New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach—these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America’s largest city while gradually becoming part of it.  That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently released map of immigrant…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Colonial America Already Ran the Socialist Experiment. It Failed.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told ABC’s Jonathan Karl last month that a democratic socialist can win any office in the country. He may be right about the contemporary politics, but he is dead wrong about the underlying economics, and Colonial America proved it four centuries before he took the oath of office. The…
    Jay Rogers
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    Mamdani Proposes Sweeping Changes to Housing Policy in NYC
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, speaking at a news conference Thursday, called for huge changes in the city’s rental market including elimination of proof of income for tenants. Mamdani hosted the news conference to promote his “Rental Ripoff Report,” created to “strengthen tenant protections, improve housing quality and hold negligent landlords accountable,” according to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Search for a Working-Class Candidate
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, Victor, the Left. Let’s talk about them. I know that you’re currently working on an article about the Left as middle…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Bill Jacobson, my pal—I love Bill. He’s the founder of Legal Insurrection.  He’s just a great guy. He posted this on X…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Damning Reports Show How Deep New York Is Mired in Blue State Doom Loop
    New York isn’t going to be able to tax and spend its way out of this mess. A series of recently released reports highlights how the state of New York has put itself on a long-term path toward calamity. New York is caught in the same doom loop that’s entrapped California and other big, blue…
    Jarrett Stepman
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