#  @reihan Reihan Salam Reihan Salam posts on X about in the, this is, the world, if you the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::14275562/interactions)  ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::14275562/posts_active)  ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::14275562/followers)  ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::14275562/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the), [this is](/topic/this-is), [the world](/topic/the-world), [if you](/topic/if-you), [politics](/topic/politics), [more than](/topic/more-than), [zohran mamdani](/topic/zohran-mamdani), [new york](/topic/new-york), [country](/topic/country), [form](/topic/form) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@erickober](/creator/undefined) [@cityjournal](/creator/undefined) [@manhattaninst](/creator/undefined) [@newyorker](/creator/undefined) [@judgeglock](/creator/undefined) [@noahpinion](/creator/undefined) [@aei](/creator/undefined) [@innovateeconomy](/creator/undefined) [@bariweiss](/creator/undefined) [@petermoskos](/creator/undefined) [@bhargreaves](/creator/undefined) [@nro](/creator/undefined) [@danyegorov](/creator/undefined) [@aaronbmaclean](/creator/undefined) [@bswud](/creator/undefined) [@alexolegimas](/creator/undefined) [@annastansbury](/creator/undefined) [@johndsailer](/creator/undefined) [@talfortgang](/creator/undefined) [@arpitrage](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "First see Matthew Lilley on the long-run effects of right-to-work laws. If hes right and he makes a convincing case the PRO Act would do a lot of damage: Our results suggest that RTW laws produce substantial economic benefits which accrue to workers through stronger local labor markets and more generally through improved socioeconomic outcomes especially for children and families that are more economically at risk. https://manhattan.institute/article/long-run-effects-of-right-to-work-laws https://manhattan.institute/article/long-run-effects-of-right-to-work-laws" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1860126102284386416) 2024-11-23T00:59Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Migrant waves are the product of shifts in destination countries. What changed in [----] was not conditions in source countries -- it was the Biden administration sharp shift both rhetorically and in practice to a more permissive stance. @NewYorker Once Biden took office he almost immediately loosened immigration policy. He ended Trumps Remain in Mexico. Biden rescinded an order that called for the prompt removal of undocumented immigrants. He halted construction of the wall. https://t.co/e3dbhMoUjA @NewYorker Once Biden took office he almost immediately loosened immigration policy. He ended" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1867298410510135777) 2024-12-12T20:00Z 47.9K followers, 29K engagements "From Tim Dalys post on the drivers of urban school enrollment decline: In [----] Chicago recorded [-----] births to city residents. In [----] there were only [-----]. This decrease of [--] percent is often overlooked because Chicagos overall population dropped only [--] percent in that same time span. The average number of children born per womandropped more in [--] years between [----] and [----] than it did in [--] years from [----] to 2007" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1912554685963162077) 2025-04-16T17:12Z 47.9K followers, 13.7K engagements "Theres some evidence to back you up see @arpitrage et al. on the contrast between the California and Texas housing markets: Low property taxes lead to concentrated ownership among elderly empty-nesters limiting housing for financially constrained young families. My instinct is that trading property taxes for income taxes is on net pro-elderly and anti-natal. My instinct is that trading property taxes for income taxes is on net pro-elderly and anti-natal" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1915097397098680587) 2025-04-23T17:36Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "One thing I don't want to hear from the next NYC mayor: that NYC is "the greatest city in the world." Yes I love NYC. But greatest-cityism is an implicit argument that we don't need to care about our eroding value proposition and that anyone who points to the dysfunction and inefficiency that plagues local and state government is a hater. That is a counterproductive attitude. It's also parochial. Wake up. There are other cosmopolitan culturally vibrant cities in the world that are more competitive affordable responsive and efficient. Granted they don't all have lovable rats that scarf down" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1935329614387138723) 2025-06-18T13:31Z 47.9K followers, 14.8K engagements "Unusually sharp energetic capable. Though I'm sure there are issues where we'd disagree Fazio has a gift for engaging thoughtfully with different perspectives and he's just incredibly public-spirited. We need more candidates of this caliber in both parties. Im in. Today Im announcing my campaign for governor of my home state of Connecticut. I know our state deserves better than sky-high electricity bills and taxes and jobs leaving our state. With a positive change the best days can be ahead of us. Together lets change https://t.co/XagNZ3wiSx Im in. Today Im announcing my campaign for governor" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1956050383396024728) 2025-08-14T17:48Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Heres a dilemma for those of us who want NYC to build much more housing. Yes the citys ambitious rezoning of Midtown South that will allow (in theory) for more homes. For that to happen however projects need to pencil out i.e. they need to be economically feasible. So will big multifamily projects in Midtown South be economically feasible when you layer on stringent affordable housing mandates offset the cost of those mandates with a tax exemption but then make the tax exemption less generous by adding in prevailing-wage requirements to ensure labor gets a cut then keep in mind that investors" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1958918964274217347) 2025-08-22T15:47Z 47.9K followers, 14K engagements "Really interesting report by @JaredWalczak on the perils of property tax elimination. The gist: every plausible revenue replacement would be worse and would incline local governments to be (even) more hostile to growth. https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-repeal-replace-revenue/ https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-repeal-replace-revenue/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1975924544524198014) 2025-10-08T14:01Z 47.9K followers, 24.4K engagements "Kudos to @BenKrauss5 for an excellent post on stationary bandits and why NYC and other communities with fixed amenities sticky agglomerations etc. are so often plagued by sclerotic government. https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/the-stationary-bandits-of-new-yorkr=fspm&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/the-stationary-bandits-of-new-yorkr=fspm&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1937485518855434506) 2025-06-24T12:18Z 47.6K followers, [----] engagements "@MattZeitlin Or who understand the law governing the Rent Guidelines Board: https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1983865259762053169) 2025-10-30T11:55Z 47.6K followers, [---] engagements "From EJ McMahon: Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York largely on the strength of his promises to boost affordability with expanded city spending on child care housing and transit buses. But hes taking the helm of a municipal government that can barely afford to cover its current spending commitments based on annual year-end financial reviews from the citys four governmental fiscal monitors. The findings of staff reports issued this month by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli city Comptroller Brad Lander the state Financial Control Board (FCB) and city Independent Budget Office (IBO)" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2007101901569978842) 2026-01-02T14:49Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements "Thoughts from my brilliant colleague @eric_kober: It's early days but Mamdani now owns a series of interlocking crises one of which is the stock of financially-distressed rent-stabilized buildings that do not generate enough income to cover operations and maintenance. Allowing the current owners to collect enough rent to break even is a political nonstarter and in any event not something he can do without the state legislature.What he can do is exercise the city's powers under Article 7A of the state Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law which empowers the city to seek court appointment" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2007128364016906452) 2026-01-02T16:34Z 47.7K followers, 14.8K engagements ""In our interviews the mayor-elect conspicuously avoided acknowledging the kinds of basic trade-offs that are the DNA of the office he is about to assume." -- @freedlander: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-office-is-he-ready-new-york-city.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-office-is-he-ready-new-york-city.html" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2007202054423621869) 2026-01-02T21:27Z 47.7K followers, 17.2K engagements "In today's Bigger Apple newsletter: @eric_kober on the risks of repeating history as Mayor Mamdani faces NYC's rent-stabilized housing crisis. https://thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/rental-ripoffs-and-economic-realities https://thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/rental-ripoffs-and-economic-realities" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2008278898648199558) 2026-01-05T20:46Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements "@mattyglesias One small point of clarification: he endorsed the pro-housing charter amendments on Election Day: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/how-mamdani-voted-ballot-proposals/409281/ https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/how-mamdani-voted-ballot-proposals/409281/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2008561410960429203) 2026-01-06T15:28Z 47.7K followers, [---] engagements "Sane clarifying thread. I'd only add that bold innovative geniuses on the U.S. left and right are working to ensure we lose our growth advantage because of (a) some combo of ignorance and hubris or (b) a belief that leveling-down egalitarianism is good for the soul. Here is my own view in a few tweets if thats of interest to anyone. There is an obvious and growing GDP/capita gap (of the order of 80%) between US and core Western Europe when measured in dollars. It matters for international trade tourism military projecting power etc. Here is my own view in a few tweets if thats of interest to" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2014507473961439462) 2026-01-23T01:16Z 47.8K followers, 10.1K engagements "This essay by @JKetcham91 in the latest @CityJournal is a pleasure to read especially if you happen to love the place you're from: https://www.city-journal.org/article/astoria-queens-new-york-evolution https://www.city-journal.org/article/astoria-queens-new-york-evolution" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1872691969681703199) 2024-12-27T17:12Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "If youre at all interested in the policy debates shaping the future of NYC I highly recommend @ManhattanInsts Bigger Apple newsletter edited by the great @lienazagare: https://manhattan.institute/article/the-bigger-apple-newsletter-feb-14-2025 https://manhattan.institute/article/the-bigger-apple-newsletter-feb-14-2025" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1890880921739407849) 2025-02-15T21:48Z 47.9K followers, 10.5K engagements "Dont become numb to this NY. The discovery law is shameful ideologically-driven nonsense that is putting lives at risk not a sane administrable evidence-based measure to ensure a fair trial. In @nypost I tell the story of Maya whose boyfriend stripped & beat her--and then walked free thanks to NY's radical dumb [----] discovery law. But last week NY's Legislature omitted ANY fixes to this bad law from its Budget draft. Victims deserve better https://t.co/cgYo8IKYZF https://t.co/n62AS85ebj In @nypost I tell the story of Maya whose boyfriend stripped & beat her--and then walked free thanks to" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1902011007234355665) 2025-03-18T14:55Z 47.9K followers, 12.3K engagements "This is heading in the right direction But well need to tighten rules of origin requirements which in turn means well need the help of the many trading partners weve been actively alienating. Operation Save Christmas https://t.co/Czv8shIkYW Operation Save Christmas https://t.co/Czv8shIkYW" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1915041568660357475) 2025-04-23T13:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "We could have started here guys. Per WSJ the trade war may be gaining some coherence. WH is looking at prioritizing China tariffs on strategic industries and phasing them in over five years. https://t.co/7QWpNyIKmW Per WSJ the trade war may be gaining some coherence. WH is looking at prioritizing China tariffs on strategic industries and phasing them in over five years. https://t.co/7QWpNyIKmW" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1915042896669270410) 2025-04-23T13:59Z 47.9K followers, 127.9K engagements "The excellent Transit Costs Project report from @ericgoldwyn et al. makes me wonder if the bigger challenge is shared governance of the Northeast Corridor who can compel commuter and intercity systems to work together @eric_kober suggests a new entity to run NEC. The best way to revive passenger rail in the US is to privatize Amtrak. Brightline has a much better record of building and improving passenger service than the government had been able to do. With subsidized credit and land value capture private rail could do more. The best way to revive passenger rail in the US is to privatize" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1933191295402688877) 2025-06-12T15:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "NYC is polarized between a cross-class status quo coalition comfortable with stagnation and public-sector bloat and a radical one that wants to address the affordability crisis (good) with policies that would intensify it (bad). Regardless of outcome we need something new" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1937491121598599216) 2025-06-24T12:40Z 47.9K followers, 16.1K engagements "From @judgeglock in @CityJournal: the red state housing-cost advantage is eroding as the pace of homebuilding slows" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1938654833671586022) 2025-06-27T17:45Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is spot on and has implications for NYC. [--]. Walkable urbanism is our comparative advantage. NYC can't out-Dallas Dallas or out-Scarsdale Scarsdale. Don't try. Lean into our strengths. [--]. Redistribution is the job of the feds not City Hall. [--]. City Hall's two-fold job: relentlessly counter "demons of density" (disorder crime congestion) and leverage scale/deep labor market to improve public services. A few other big old American cities -- Chicago Philly Boston etc. -- need to step up and Manhattanize themselves for the good of the country NYC can't fulfill America's urban dreams all by" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1956355057668034721) 2025-08-15T13:59Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Little magazines are scenes. The best of them are built around voices personalities generational sensibilities not just causes movements lines of fracture. @JerusalemDemsas is charming smart and curious and she has a vision for an energetic punchy center-left pub that will argue rather than sneer. Though I expect to disagree with @TheArgumentMag more often than not (as an unrepentant carceral urbanist) I'm rooting for her new venture" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1957932523637338286) 2025-08-19T22:27Z 47.9K followers, 113.5K engagements "How do you mask declining or stagnant reading and math scores It's much much easier than you'd think. See this report from @chalkbeatCHI: For example third grade students currently must score [---] out of [---] on the math section of the Illinois Assessment of Readiness to be considered meeting proficiency standards. But under the proposed changes they would only need to score [---] to be labeled proficient. https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/08/12/illinois-proposes-new-cut-scores-for-state-standardized-tests/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1958721924093157596) 2025-08-22T02:44Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is important and very relevant for NYC under Zohran. You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019794856671846808) 2026-02-06T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "RT @Noahpinion: Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022136098387111999) 2026-02-13T02:29Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "(Useful context: "The person in question was holding a knife and was asked more than [--] times to drop it before being shot.")" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022443866175987741) 2026-02-13T22:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Essential listening for anyone interested in the U.S. military spending great-power competition and the vulnerable state of U.S. global leadership. @MEaglen senior fellow at @AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijings Military Spending joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in. https://t.co/2tUGV5sqre @MEaglen senior fellow at @AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijings Military Spending joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in." [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1865001888040554644) 2024-12-06T11:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "And this piece touches on how the Biden administration set off its own migrant wave: https://www.thefp.com/p/immigration-is-a-mess-heres-how-to https://www.thefp.com/p/immigration-is-a-mess-heres-how-to" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1867298836722397406) 2024-12-12T20:01Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Not a rigorous empirical claim: Inflation most important but progressive contempt (perceived or real) for working- lower-middle-class Trump base had spillover on naturalized second-gen and ethnic voters outside of that base with similar cultural instincts. A lot of folks who generally share my politics have tried to argue that negative media vibes on the economy shifted the electorate to the right not the economy itself. But look at the data People following the news via NYT WaPo etc are still shifting left. Its the folks A lot of folks who generally share my politics have tried to argue that" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1875925653998252484) 2025-01-05T15:21Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements "See here: In fairness this is in part a reflection of a byzantine land-use process. But there is a certain evasiveness here. I'll admit to preferring the straightforwardness of the following: https://manhattan.institute/article/what-would-new-york-citys-housing-moonshot-look-like https://static1.squarespace.com/static/67a2f550954e9c463f4a2ef6/t/681ba98b9b089d1f4ffba0fc/1746643340249/State+of+Emergency+-+Addressing+NYC%E2%80%99s+Housing+Crisis.docx.pdf https://manhattan.institute/article/what-would-new-york-citys-housing-moonshot-look-like" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1935411208854626599) 2025-06-18T18:56Z 47.6K followers, [----] engagements "Rent is the single largest component of the consumer price index (CPI) and a key determinant of inflation. Our research shows that by increasing rents interest rate hikes can unintentionally drive-up inflation. Boaz Abramson https://business.columbia.edu/press-release/cbs-press-releases/higher-rates-higher-rents-how-monetary-policy-affects-housing https://business.columbia.edu/press-release/cbs-press-releases/higher-rates-higher-rents-how-monetary-policy-affects-housing" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1939744580636979226) 2025-06-30T17:55Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements "Another great overview of this literature from @RAVerBruggen: https://www.city-journal.org/article/universal-basic-income-costs-jobs-work A great piece from @KelseyTuoc about the disappointing results from some very well-designed studies of the impact of cash transfers in the domestic poverty context. https://t.co/lBAUA1DKJo https://www.city-journal.org/article/universal-basic-income-costs-jobs-work A great piece from @KelseyTuoc about the disappointing results from some very well-designed studies of the impact of cash transfers in the domestic poverty context. https://t.co/lBAUA1DKJo" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1957785308566601995) 2025-08-19T12:42Z 47.7K followers, 12.1K engagements "Important note from @NYHammond re: NYS math and reading proficiency rates: Why are New Yorks public school students showing steadily higher proficiency levels on state-administered tests when their scores on federal tests have been getting worse Part of the answer seems to lie in the Education Departments grading methods. Over the past dozen years the department has been gradually lowering cut scores the minimum number of questions students have to answer correctly in order to be considered proficient at each grade level." [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1958617017847607538) 2025-08-21T19:47Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements "Can the next mayor freeze the rent for NYC's 1M rent-regulated apartments You can pack the Rent Guidelines Board with people you expect to reach a predetermined conclusion. But as Christian Browne explains that's just the beginning. https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-freeze-rent-legal-rent-guidelines-board https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-freeze-rent-legal-rent-guidelines-board" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1960051407970611666) 2025-08-25T18:47Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements "In fairness its also annoying to have a leading mayoral candidate who has built his political identity around vehement anti-Zionism since he was a teenager and who seems to have a shallow understanding of how public policy in New York City works e.g. his core campaign commitment to freezing the rent seems to run afoul of the law. https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/ Honestly its annoying that the moderators had them spend [--] minutes on Israel before they discussed the NYPD or housing or K-12" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1978997442000368037) 2025-10-17T01:32Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements ".@KSoltisAnderson on Melting Pot or Civil War Interested in pre-ordering Try B&N: or Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274/ref=sr_1_1ie=UTF8&qid=1537463715&sr=8-1&keywords=reihan+salam https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/melting-pot-or-civil-war-reihan-salam/1127541559;jsessionid=19FB5EC524948A422AD8A8537C733FBA.prodny_store02-atgap09ean=9780735216273#/ https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274/ref=sr_1_1ie=UTF8&qid=1537463715&sr=8-1&keywords=reihan+salam" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1042824867551240192) 2018-09-20T17:16Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "My wife made this magical collage in honor of my fantasy basketball team the Brooklyn Nietos. Though my team is pretty bad at the moment I definitely have the best visuals" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1054956143813054466) 2018-10-24T04:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Just about everyone agrees that racism is bad. But what counts as racism For over fifty years social scientists have relied on modern racism scales to study intergroup attitudes. This is a rich http://x.com/i/article/1796274313181401088 http://x.com/i/article/1796274313181401088" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1796279232366100721) 2024-05-30T20:35Z 47.9K followers, 49K engagements "Industrial policy can never fail. We can only fail industrial policy. For this industrial policy experiment to end well the next chapter needs among other things to create a whole new class of demand inducements. Perhaps starting with Detroit. For this industrial policy experiment to end well the next chapter needs among other things to create a whole new class of demand inducements. Perhaps starting with Detroit" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1834719858887373228) 2024-09-13T22:24Z 47.9K followers, 84.5K engagements "Why might we have seen a decline in Democratic support in deep-blue states Was it housing costs (see @jbarro: Rising public disorder (see @CharlesFLehman: The attenuation of ethnic identity/emergence of a multiethnic mainstream (see: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/anti-racialism-ibram-kendi-anti-racism/638433/ https://thecausalfallacy.com/p/your-revolution-is-over-mr-lebowski https://www.joshbarro.com/p/another-theory-on-why-electoral-college https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/anti-racialism-ibram-kendi-anti-racism/638433/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1854249169344414117) 2024-11-06T19:47Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Harris rose to prominence by placating core Democratic constituencies not by winning over skeptics or by demonstrating the ability to make hard choices. Successful Dems say no to the hard left: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1854358243339858353) 2024-11-07T03:00Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Per Ezra's thoughts below this was my take on a key Harris vulnerability -- her unwillingness to say no to political allies: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ A few thoughts from the conversations Ive been having and hearing over the last week: The hard question isnt the [--] points that wouldve decided the election. Its how to build a Democratic Party that isnt always [--] points away from losing to Donald Trump or worse. The https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ A few thoughts from the conversations Ive been having" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1855987067429269594) 2024-11-11T14:52Z 47.9K followers, 18.5K engagements "Yes. The deterioration of public safety is not a partisan issue. NYS Republicans have an opening but so do Democrats who recognize that the decarceration experiment has gone too far. Some New Yorkers may have felt a sense of relief after the red wave election but this stabbing spree is a grim reminder that the election that really counts for New Yorkers is happening next year. The change we need is going to come from Albany and City Hall not Washington. Some New Yorkers may have felt a sense of relief after the red wave election but this stabbing spree is a grim reminder that the election" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1859002603730071725) 2024-11-19T22:35Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "@InnovateEconomy And a third thought: if you care about improving the quality and cost-effectiveness public services collective bargaining in the public sector has a pretty bad track record. See the work of @DiSalvoCCNY: https://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Consequences/dp/0199990743 https://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Consequences/dp/0199990743" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1860128523081646595) 2024-11-23T01:09Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "New Yorks approach to education spending: more spending less accountability deteriorating educational performance. I wrote how NY education budget has ballooned under @GovKathyHochul while the Board of Regents eliminated most tools to assess learning; [--] - lower state standards [--] - no more HS graduation exam [--] - no more chronic absenteeism data https://t.co/Byvprg1t7Y I wrote how NY education budget has ballooned under @GovKathyHochul while the Board of Regents eliminated most tools to assess learning; [--] - lower state standards [--] - no more HS graduation exam [--] - no more chronic absenteeism" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1875926745725247800) 2025-01-05T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Crime is not a product of poverty. It stems from a corrosive sense of entitlementhow dare this person not smile at me give me what I want show me due deference Why should I respect those who are weaker than me or who have too much to lose to do anything As Ive said repeatedly: Engagement in obviously antisocial behavior in public settingslike playing music on a speaker when no one asked to hear itis often an expression of power backed by the threat of violence. The punk with the speaker is daring you to say something and As Ive said repeatedly: Engagement in obviously antisocial behavior in" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1875928686589042874) 2025-01-05T15:33Z 47.9K followers, 34.3K engagements "Walkable urbanism is severely undersupplied. However disorder vitiates the attractiveness of dense urban environments hence the boom in (orderly) walkable exurban downtowns. We're squandering an enormous opportunity. "To understand why middle-income families with children are moving from relatively safe New York to relatively less-safe cities in Florida Georgia and Texas consider that its much cheaper to insulate yourself from urban disorder in a single-family house in a Sunbelt suburb" "To understand why middle-income families with children are moving from relatively safe New York to" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1876381171359322446) 2025-01-06T21:31Z 47.9K followers, 20.1K engagements "Blue-state NIMBYism including blue-state Republican NIMBYism is downstream of declining faith in blue-state governance. If you believe local government can and will mitigate the downsides of density you'll be much more open to it. If not you'll raise the drawbridge" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1932553535607947502) 2025-06-10T21:40Z 47.9K followers, 42.4K engagements "Subtle smart guide to understanding the obstacles facing reformers in NYC. The center-rights failure to gain traction in New Yorks mayoral race can be explained in part by the coalitions behind the two leading candidates. Cuomos base is content with the status quo and Mamdanis wants more public spending and higher taxes. https://t.co/ZIlvimDtOA The center-rights failure to gain traction in New Yorks mayoral race can be explained in part by the coalitions behind the two leading candidates. Cuomos base is content with the status quo and Mamdanis wants more public spending and higher taxes." [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1937673972465967254) 2025-06-25T00:47Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Didnt quite clear the bar for an internship at The Nation but Ive got an idea how about Fun Fact: Zohran Mamdani applied to @thenation Internship program soon after he graduated from Bowdoin and was rejected. He never re-applied -but probably good that we didnt steer him into journalism. Fun Fact: Zohran Mamdani applied to @thenation Internship program soon after he graduated from Bowdoin and was rejected. He never re-applied -but probably good that we didnt steer him into journalism" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1938305094836986073) 2025-06-26T18:35Z 47.9K followers, 19.8K engagements "Rehn and Meidner thought rising labor bargaining power would discipline firms those unable to pay higher wages would exit sparking structural transformation. What they didnt anticipate was that customers would be willing to toss their own Lobster Cobb Salad. @TheStalwart wait it's $97 and you have to toss it yourself https://t.co/90cWsVZG0L @TheStalwart wait it's $97 and you have to toss it yourself https://t.co/90cWsVZG0L" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1943007321505865865) 2025-07-09T18:00Z 47.9K followers, 20.1K engagements "Being part of a cohesive high-trust mutually supportive community is already an enormous advantage. If we really are entering a more chaotic moral/cultural/economic moment that advantage will grow which in turn will intensify resentment from those on the outside. its hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened but sometime in the last five years our world shifted from most people being resonable high social trust actors to grifting scamming and violence being the norm and i don't think we're going back to high trust society. its hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened but sometime in the last" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1954169315814461473) 2025-08-09T13:14Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "In [----] David Dinkins was a self-described democratic socialist who campaigned on moving homeless families into permanent housing; expanding public services for low-income families more broadly; and racial healing and unity. Faced with a deep recession and an intensifying crack epidemic however his term was instead marked by a turn towards austerity and rising racial and ethnic tension. Rather than expand social services the citys economic woes compelled him to raise taxes and constrain social spending. Dinkinss main policy achievement not one he campaigned on was a large expansion of the" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1955970988631343392) 2025-08-14T12:33Z 47.9K followers, 10.1K engagements "As of [----] the over-65 population is 61.2M and the under-18 population is 73.1M. Within the next decade the ratio of over-65s to under-18s is projected to hit 1:1. I'm generally an optimist but I think is the sort of self-reinforcing problem that is only going to get worse. An aging population means less public support for pro-children policy which results in incrementally fewer children. I'm generally an optimist but I think is the sort of self-reinforcing problem that is only going to get worse. An aging population means less public support for pro-children policy which results in" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1958718560802390398) 2025-08-22T02:31Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Love Tap Left Also: Punching someone in the face is a misdemeanor You sure thats the kind of city you want to live in Also: Punching someone in the face is a misdemeanor You sure thats the kind of city you want to live in" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1959672882960748906) 2025-08-24T17:43Z 47.9K followers, 14.7K engagements "I've had the privilege of knowing admiring learning from @bariweiss for a decently long time. She is a dynamo: creative tenacious obsessive hardworking a strange combination of heart and head motivated a deep love of the American project. I don't know anyone who is more ferociously loyal to friends or keener to find elevate and fight for talent. This is hard to explain but her friendship has the force of a laser beam. If she did not exist we'd have to invent her. Paramount to buy Bari Weiss Free Press for up to $200M give her senior editorial role at CBS News https://t.co/9RNlpiNdCs" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1963581061004222512) 2025-09-04T12:33Z 47.9K followers, 74.1K engagements "Being governor will from time to time involve having unhappy experiences. I cannot believe how bad this interview is [--] minutes and it just totally devolves. https://t.co/5FU7rJifBV I cannot believe how bad this interview is [--] minutes and it just totally devolves. https://t.co/5FU7rJifBV" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1975742158310134212) 2025-10-08T01:56Z 47.9K followers, 59.2K engagements "By the time Bill de Blasio was elected mayor he had served for a term as NYC Public Advocate two terms representing the 39th district in the City Council and even a stint as an elected member of a local school board in Brooklyn. Whatever you think of his tenure cant say I was a fan he had a solid understanding of how city government worked which undoubtedly proved helpful. Zohrans plan for handling dangerous mentally unwell individuals in New York is to model care after the non-profit Fountain House. But Fountain Houses own policy says: Membership is open to anyone with a history of mental" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1978560889394806836) 2025-10-15T20:37Z 47.9K followers, 16.1K engagements "The next gubernatorial race could be interesting. Together Cuomo & Sliwa also drew well over [--] million votes854k+ for Cuomo alone. Cuomo lost this race with 100k more votes than Adams WON it with four years ago when Adams' vote share was 67%. Turnout was massive & Mamdani badly underperformed as the Democratic nominee. https://t.co/2xCYUyFae2 Together Cuomo & Sliwa also drew well over [--] million votes854k+ for Cuomo alone. Cuomo lost this race with 100k more votes than Adams WON it with four years ago when Adams' vote share was 67%. Turnout was massive & Mamdani badly underperformed as the" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1985941478477066421) 2025-11-05T05:25Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "RT @nicolegelinas: Mamdani is suspiciously slow about giving us even a hint about his vision for this one of two parts of his platform that" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019506631692939739) 2026-02-05T20:21Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "We all refer to things imprecisely sometimes. https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022443267628154901) 2026-02-13T22:50Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Chris you might have to run for governor. https://x.com/chrislhayes/status/875381763316609024 .@NYGovCuomo what are you doing about the subways What are you doing about the subways What are you doing about be subwaysWhat are you d https://x.com/chrislhayes/status/875381763316609024 .@NYGovCuomo what are you doing about the subways What are you doing about the subways What are you doing about be subwaysWhat are you d" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/875387816724885504) 2017-06-15T16:21Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Though as to why opinion journalism is often so toxic: it attracts people who are looking for socially acceptable ways to be contemptuous" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/884470204075569153) 2017-07-10T17:51Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "A bit of friendly Flake skepticism (in @Slate): http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/jeff_flake_is_not_the_future_of_the_republican_party.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/jeff_flake_is_not_the_future_of_the_republican_party.html" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/892886408318287872) 2017-08-02T23:14Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "The latest from @CityJournal: a powerful and important @bariweiss piece on the fear self-censorship turmoil in America's elite private schools and what it might mean for our ideological future: https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1369405571179380739) 2021-03-09T21:51Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "That Hochul would decree an exemption for city workers is also a handy guide to New Yorks Democratic governing philosophy: The rest of us exist for the convenience of government. Hochuls new plan: congestion pricing for thee but not for me https://t.co/nKam57JVQP https://t.co/CIDkWzIoRl Hochuls new plan: congestion pricing for thee but not for me https://t.co/nKam57JVQP https://t.co/CIDkWzIoRl" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1827516842790854926) 2024-08-25T01:22Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "I dont know how Trump II will approach legal immigration but its misleading to suggest that a renewed public-charge push amounts to a reduction in legal admissions for better or worse. High-pool countries have long waitlists for oversubscribed visa categories (e.g. family preference visas employment-based visas). Modernizing public-charge rules will mean that newcomers will have higher earning potential on average not that legal inflows will necessarily be lower. That could still happen but not because of a more sensible public-charge standard. The following is from [----]. Dated but the broad" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1854933585121157169) 2024-11-08T17:06Z 47.9K followers, 18.6K engagements "This is the trap that our 21st-century presidents have tended to fall into. They win elections because their opponents were unpopular and thenimagining the public has endorsed their party activists agendathey use the power of their office to make themselves unpopular. This is why the public moved left on key issues during Trumps first term and right during Bidens. Voters in this election rejected the excesses and failures of the left far more than they endorsed the rightor much of anything else. Yuval Levin in The Dispatch https://thedispatch.com/article/what-trumps-win-doesnt-mean/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1856085766595596572) 2024-11-11T21:25Z 47.9K followers, 32.5K engagements "Judging by her sponsorship of the PRO Act its fair to say @LChavezDeRemer is pro-union. But theres a difference between being pro-union and pro-worker. Two quick thoughts come to mind. 🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Congresswoman @LChavezDeRemer as Secretary of Labor. https://t.co/Clbz88Jg6N 🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Congresswoman @LChavezDeRemer as Secretary of Labor. https://t.co/Clbz88Jg6N" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1860125297171136981) 2024-11-23T00:56Z 47.9K followers, 38.5K engagements "This is an outstanding choice. @SteveMiran is sharp thoughtful creative and a patriot through and through. Were all immensely proud of the work hes done at @ManhattanInst and were excited for whats to come. I am beyond honored that President Trump has chosen me to lead his Council of Economic Advisers. I look forward to working to help implement the President's policy agenda to create a booming noninflationary economy that brings prosperity to all Americans https://t.co/CROmzuk61v I am beyond honored that President Trump has chosen me to lead his Council of Economic Advisers. I look forward" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1870860816062492894) 2024-12-22T15:55Z 47.9K followers, 21K engagements "Easily one of the sharpest most creative most talented young journalists in America. This is another coup for the great @BrianAcity and the team hes building at @CityJournal. Some professional news: As of today I am officially senior editor @CityJournal. Don't worry I'll still be writing and researching. But I'll also be taking on some duties on with CJ. Including commissioning pieceswhich you should pitch me🧵 https://t.co/v8V1s8Aa8Z Some professional news: As of today I am officially senior editor @CityJournal. Don't worry I'll still be writing and researching. But I'll also be taking on" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1894161896644759724) 2025-02-24T23:06Z 47.9K followers, 12.6K engagements "Recent events bring to mind the inherent tension between protectionism and restrictionism. Until AI obviates the need for human labor autarky is far more (low-skill) labor-intensive than openness to labor-intensive imports. Piece is from 2018" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1908500634296369585) 2025-04-05T12:43Z 47.9K followers, 16.8K engagements "Medicaid is not a single federal program for the poor that treats poor people across states more or less equally i.e. with a single benefit package and COLA-adjusted eligibility standard. Some state programs are drastically more generous and expansive than others. The question is not whether to deprive poor people of medical care it is whether to continue giving rich-state legislatures the right to extract unlimited federal dollars to cover people further and further up the income scale. Shots fired: Sen. Moreno tells me Houses Medicaid proposals amount to cutting benefits and cant pass" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1917395182477271115) 2025-04-30T01:46Z 47.9K followers, 47.8K engagements "There is less here than meets the eye. If you impose regulations that raise costs and limit the potential upside of private development (deed-restricted affordability requirements prevailing wage good-cause eviction etc.) you won't get much private development no matter how much you upzone. This is a great answer from @ZohranKMamdani https://t.co/K4fOXHPAXt This is a great answer from @ZohranKMamdani https://t.co/K4fOXHPAXt" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1932455195398558010) 2025-06-10T15:09Z 47.9K followers, 58.8K engagements "Best most underappreciated economics columnist in the game: @greg_ip of @WSJ. This is such a clear substantive concise account of the urban housing challenge: https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/nyc-mayor-election-housing-costs-c1f88bcbmod=author_content_page_1_pos_1 https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/nyc-mayor-election-housing-costs-c1f88bcbmod=author_content_page_1_pos_1" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1938588124843479203) 2025-06-27T13:20Z 47.9K followers, 11.2K engagements ""The Medicaid cuts in this law largely depend for their implementation on state governments that have no interest in seeing them happen" https://t.co/TNMEPP1hSi "The Medicaid cuts in this law largely depend for their implementation on state governments that have no interest in seeing them happen" https://t.co/TNMEPP1hSi" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1942314478437106072) 2025-07-07T20:07Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is a good excuse for me to observe that @aaronsibarium is brilliant hard-working tenacious exceedingly well-read. Though hes thrived as an investigative journalist hes also a really excellent essayist. Im a fan. This is from a profile of yours truly that Abramson just published in the Boston Globe. It's a nice highlight reel of some of our most impactful scoops. https://t.co/5Ls2t0qCwM https://t.co/h086zRzeNZ This is from a profile of yours truly that Abramson just published in the Boston Globe. It's a nice highlight reel of some of our most impactful scoops. https://t.co/5Ls2t0qCwM" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1945530999787418071) 2025-07-16T17:08Z 47.9K followers, 14.7K engagements "Working-class coalition. Big education gaps. Mamdani won the young college graduates by landslide. And turned them out. https://t.co/CjfVtfZ2Po Big education gaps. Mamdani won the young college graduates by landslide. And turned them out. https://t.co/CjfVtfZ2Po" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1985942531344081185) 2025-11-05T05:29Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Saddened by thought of internet trolls who are parents who really should be bonding with their kids. (But maybe the kids are better off)" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/883145154533654528) 2017-07-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Great article but might have been worth mentioning that McCain [--] proposed curbing exclusion and was denounced by the Obama campaign. https://x.com/sangerkatz/status/883663479877640192 https://x.com/sangerkatz/status/883663479877640192" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/883720046777954305) 2017-07-08T16:10Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "This is a great exercise. I often wind up thinking this way as my own preferences aren't especially popular. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/883347049239937024 https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/883347049239937024" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/883724369834520576) 2017-07-08T16:28Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Having more CT Republicans and OK Democrats in Congress would change our politics for the better: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/opinion/how-to-make-congress-bipartisan.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/opinion/how-to-make-congress-bipartisan.html" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/883725833403236354) 2017-07-08T16:33Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "Ive known and admired Oren for years both as a friend and as a colleague. His work is consistently thought-provoking and creative and Ill be following his new venture with great interest. You should too Personal announcement: I will be leaving @ManhattanInst at year's end to start a new organization whose mission is to redefine the economic orthodoxy that guides the nation's politics and public policy. We will be launching publicly in the spring. 1/4 Personal announcement: I will be leaving @ManhattanInst at year's end to start a new organization whose mission is to redefine the economic" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1204396452400836608) 2019-12-10T13:44Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "@CityJournal is looking for an exceptional digital editor. Success in this role requires an editors sensibility for detail speed accuracy and storytelling. It requires a digital marketers creativity visual acuity and ability to craft and carry out data-driven strategies. And it requires a few essential personal qualitieschiefly sophistication discretion wit and a commitment to excellenceneeded to maintain fidelity to City Journals legacy while attracting and engaging new audiences. https://manhattan.institute/job/digital-editor-city-journal" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1814041224484995145) 2024-07-18T20:55Z 47.9K followers, 11.4K engagements ""Compared with the classes of [----] through [----] the number of first-generation college students rose from [--] percent to [--] percent and the number of students eligible for Pell grants increased from [--] percent to [--] percent. MIT actually became more diverse based on socioeconomic measures perhaps partly in response to the ruling." Both MIT and the media advertised the changes in the racial makeup of incoming freshmen as reducing diversity but other factors are also at play write Peter Arcidiacono and @tyleransom. https://t.co/Gvnuf1gRAM Both MIT and the media advertised the changes in the" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1829230934895517870) 2024-08-29T18:53Z 47.9K followers, 38.7K engagements "As @judgeglock has outlined this is a much bigger deal than is commonly understood: https://www.city-journal.org/article/end-minority-contracting This is true and its a major problem. Texas needs to turn off its racist minority-contracting nonsense. As does DoD which has TENS of BILLIONS of dollars of the same @DOGE All over the USA pass-through govt sales via sketchy DEI contractors mark up 10-40% and re-sell. https://www.city-journal.org/article/end-minority-contracting This is true and its a major problem. Texas needs to turn off its racist minority-contracting nonsense. As does DoD which" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1894956121502490715) 2025-02-27T03:42Z 47.9K followers, 15.9K engagements "cc @ManhattanInst there's an emerging "dark abundance" policy bundle where you embrace texas/florida housing policy bountiful natural gas guiliani style carceral ubranism and value economic growth over redistribution there's an emerging "dark abundance" policy bundle where you embrace texas/florida housing policy bountiful natural gas guiliani style carceral ubranism and value economic growth over redistribution" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1907146853876936864) 2025-04-01T19:03Z 47.9K followers, 11.1K engagements "The anti-abundance agenda It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships driving up infrastructure costs. https://t.co/o2YJpldizm It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships driving up infrastructure costs. https://t.co/o2YJpldizm" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1936160770615656912) 2025-06-20T20:34Z 47.9K followers, 30.6K engagements "Peter Orszag is a pragmatic thoughtful Democrat who served with distinction under President Obama. By expressing concern about the ideological direction of his party he isnt cheerleading for the GOP which has its own problems. Hes urging a course correction. "I'm saddened to say that I think the Democratic Party is becoming increasingly antisemitic and anti-capitalism." @Lazard CEO Peter Orszag issues a stark warning to @SaraEisen and @davidfaber following Zohran Mamdani's upset in the NYC mayoral primary: https://t.co/ySnGp6cdyO "I'm saddened to say that I think the Democratic Party is" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1938417695189237939) 2025-06-27T02:02Z 47.9K followers, 25.3K engagements "Married father of two with a third baby on the way working an off-duty security detail to help build a life for his family. Thinking of the families of those killed in this evenings shooting on Park Avenue especially the loved ones of the brave off-duty NYPD Officer that was reportedly killed. Grateful to live in a city where hundreds of brave NYPD officers were able to respond so quickly. Thinking of the families of those killed in this evenings shooting on Park Avenue especially the loved ones of the brave off-duty NYPD Officer that was reportedly killed. Grateful to live in a city where" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1950025644068192295) 2025-07-29T02:48Z 47.9K followers, 81.4K engagements "Sneakily the most consequential thing that happened in NYC politics in 2025: Mamdani allies succeeded in keeping the Charter Review Commission from proposing a ballot initiative to create an open primary top-two system. Given the result its easy to see why" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1985943236536353058) 2025-11-05T05:32Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "RT @PeterMoskos: I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022331363010208066) 2026-02-13T15:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @bhargreaves: This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022652370459455510) 2026-02-14T12:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "A note from @charlescwcooke the editor of @NRO: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450696/note-magazines-age-twitter http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450696/note-magazines-age-twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/900014891586793472) 2017-08-22T15:20Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Recently @AEI @HooverInst and @ManhattanInst co-hosted a small gathering on race in American life. I was particularly delighted to speak with @cvaldary @DelanoSquires and Mene Ukueberuwa of @WSJopinion about the future of Black identity: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oz8GJ_Sslxw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oz8GJ_Sslxw" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1821549774190854272) 2024-08-08T14:11Z 47.9K followers, 10.6K engagements "If NYC built [------] new housing units over the next decade the city would be affordable for striving newcomers; foster entrepreneurship and economic vitality; and reverse the city's decline in cultural and political influence. What would it take to get there Read @eric_kober NYC's Mayor Adams set a "moonshot" goal of [------] new housing units in the next decade. In a new issue brief @eric_kober outlines the critical legal and regulatory changes the city must enact to achieve its ambitious goal. https://t.co/8boOcCvgm1 NYC's Mayor Adams set a "moonshot" goal of [------] new housing units in the" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1831061660137861129) 2024-09-03T20:08Z 47.9K followers, 83.7K engagements "Lee Zeldin won just over [--] percent of the vote in NYC roughly doubling Molinaros share in [----]. Trump won [--] percent of the NYC vote in [----] and [--] percent in [----]. Kamala Harris with 95% of precincts reporting is polling at 67.8% of the vote in New York City. If that holds that would be the WORST performance for a Democratic Presidential candidate in the five boroughs since [----] () A disastrous evening for Democrats in Gotham. Kamala Harris with 95% of precincts reporting is polling at 67.8% of the vote in New York City. If that holds that would be the WORST performance for a Democratic" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1854011379528642811) 2024-11-06T04:02Z 47.9K followers, 13.2K engagements "This is a shrewd strategy for deep-red and deep-blue races. Given the direction of NYS NJ RI and other rightward-trending blue states center-right independents could be a way forward. Sen. Deb Fischer (R) wins re-election @NBCNews projects defeating Dan Osborn (I) who made her work for it. Sen. Deb Fischer (R) wins re-election @NBCNews projects defeating Dan Osborn (I) who made her work for it" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1854037140734169438) 2024-11-06T05:44Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Second consider the politics. Might a pro-Union stance bolster the working-class realignment Thats not at all clear. Recently @InnovateEconomy released a survey of U.S. workers. While [--] percent of Harris voters believe that labor unions are a net positive for American workers just [--] percent of Trump voters agree. One in five Trump voters believes unions to be net negative while just one in [--] Harris voters says this. (The remainder believe unions are neither positive nor negative.) Perhaps counterintuitively support for unions in general was driven by workers with higher levels of" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1860126969485996514) 2024-11-23T01:03Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Sweden and Canada: both have seen a pro-immigration consensus collapse after (a) a reckless increase in inflows and (b) a hubristic effort to anathematize even mild restrictionist sentiment. There are lessons here. Sweden has taken immigration below net zero - eg more are now leaving than arriving. It tightened rules upped deportation and agreed to offer up to 25k to those who re-emigrate (aka voluntary repatriation). My column on a changing debate: https://t.co/zKeuw3wrQh Sweden has taken immigration below net zero - eg more are now leaving than arriving. It tightened rules upped deportation" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1860355980824862884) 2024-11-23T16:13Z 47.9K followers, 45.4K engagements "Read to understand what Starbucks can teach us about the high cost of public disorder. If you want to know why disorder matters see: https://t.co/HhfEukPlvR If you want to know why disorder matters see: https://t.co/HhfEukPlvR" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1861095545273495630) 2024-11-25T17:12Z 47.9K followers, 13.5K engagements "A well-deserved tribute to @AbigailShrier a senior fellow at @ManhattanInst TOTAL AND COMPLETE VINDICATION https://t.co/2zfEvF8Qb1 TOTAL AND COMPLETE VINDICATION https://t.co/2zfEvF8Qb1" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1869191166539002257) 2024-12-18T01:21Z 47.9K followers, 16.8K engagements "Im sympathetic to Matts larger point red-state crime merits much closer attention. One part of the story: Trump won more votes (1.2M) in Massachusetts than in Oklahoma (1M) and far more in NYS (3.5M) than in AR (760K). This is irrelevant when it comes to the outcome of a presidential contest. But the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of conservatives and moderates in (e.g.) NYC has bearing on coverage/the discourse. @matthewtradcath @MarcDamon9 I am [---] percent tough on crime I have zero sympathy for anti-police politics on the left. But what I am saying is that I am *genuinely*" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1871934142885322983) 2024-12-25T15:00Z 47.9K followers, 14.4K engagements "My parents moved to Brooklyn in [----] when the city was flat on its back. When their friends and neighbors moved to the suburbs they stayed put and played their part in bringing their neighborhood back to life. After my father died his funeral was so packed with neighbors I had never met that I could barely move. It was an intense experience and it helped me make sense of things. When I was in middle school I asked my father how long it took for him to feel at home in America. He said it didn't take him any time at all -- that he felt more at home in New York than he ever had in his native" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1872693898176344402) 2024-12-27T17:19Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "53 prior arrests. Another individual who just snapped with no warning signs at all what was that about broken-windows policing being debunked https://t.co/N2b5Sh7mWF Another individual who just snapped with no warning signs at all what was that about broken-windows policing being debunked https://t.co/N2b5Sh7mWF" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1875561505166651869) 2025-01-04T15:14Z 47.9K followers, 12K engagements "Fragmented dysfunctional unaccountable governance has sapped faith revenue will be used wisely. Only way to restore faith is to demonstrate competence probity efficiency. Question is whether congestion pricing will help or hurt that effort. @humantransit I find compliance costs and how we spend the money most compelling. NYC is going to spend $1b upfront and $115 annually to enforce and then spend the money on small transit expansion (2nd ave) and costly elevators. @humantransit I find compliance costs and how we spend the money most compelling. NYC is going to spend $1b upfront and $115" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1876310885406581207) 2025-01-06T16:52Z 47.9K followers, 13.4K engagements "Yes. China has been stockpiling minerals food semiconductors for years. Theyre prepared were not. Reshoring critical supply chains is important. Coloring books arent critical. Makes no sense to burn political capital on crash decoupling for car seats. New pod: American families with young kids aren't ready for what a long trade war with China would mean for everyday life. The business press has been good at reporting on China as a global leader in smartphone and electronics manufacturing. But consider also that as a share of New pod: American families with young kids aren't ready for what a" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1912618434715898141) 2025-04-16T21:25Z 47.9K followers, 38.9K engagements "Lander housing plan: a plan to have a Citizen's Assembly make a series of plans and then those plans will go through expedited public review of various sub-plans and then we'll develop regional comprehensive plans including a Mayoral Panel to develop regional plans" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1935410720868331782) 2025-06-18T18:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is not the central point of @dhumes new column but Pakistan (population: 250M) really is an interesting case of hierarchical citizenship see policies towards Ahmadi Muslims Hudood Ordinances role of the Federal Shariat Courts etc" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940555728538030264) 2025-07-02T23:38Z 47.9K followers, 34.7K engagements "Link: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-brings-third-world-prejudices-to-new-york-4b87c111 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-brings-third-world-prejudices-to-new-york-4b87c111" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1940555813929865572) 2025-07-02T23:38Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "@StatisticUrban Partial explanation:" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/1943796181450338753) 2025-07-11T22:14Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements ""Criticizing the SHSAT results it is the same as Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he doesnt like the latest jobs report. You are shooting the messenger because you dont like the message." -- @dany_egorov" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953167389622673479) 2025-08-06T18:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Did Mamdani answer the question about whether it would be appropriate to boycott/divest/sanction Uganda" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981151138285310178) 2025-10-23T00:10Z 47.9K followers, 22.6K engagements "The WSJ recently reported on a related phenomenon: the gentrification of senior migration to Florida. Quote: In [----] net migration grew 5% from a decade earlier for households with inflation-adjusted incomes of at least $125000 and headed by someone [--] or older according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of census data archived at IPUMS at the University of Minnesota. By comparison the flow of similar households with inflation-adjusted incomes of $75000 or less shrank 44%. The pattern was the same for households headed by someone aged [--] to 64: Net migration of the upper-income group grew 42%" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2016275131476410607) 2026-01-27T22:20Z 47.9K followers, 83.7K engagements "Fascinating aside @CPopeHC's latest report on potential implications of extending "temporary" APTC subsides: Medicaid expansion led to a substantial crowd-out of ESI enrollment with 56% of workers newly enrolled in the program having previously been covered by ESI" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2016882812171821189) 2026-01-29T14:35Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "In fairness why would you expect mayoral candidates to answer questions about looming $12.6B budget gaps when you could instead ask them about say halal cart prices Lander as @NYCComptroller like @NYSComptroller DiNapoli issued reports warning of growing budget gaps. See his remarks starting around 36:42 mark. It wasn't secret just widely ignored by media. Candidate Mamdani was never asked about it. https://t.co/roVATJrx3Z via @YouTube Lander as @NYCComptroller like @NYSComptroller DiNapoli issued reports warning of growing budget gaps. See his remarks starting around 36:42 mark. It wasn't" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2016915795629031644) 2026-01-29T16:46Z 47.9K followers, 48.5K engagements "Sobering from @EjmEj in @CityJournal: On a proportional basis New Yorks [--] percent population decline since [----] exceeded the [---] percent and [---] percent declines experienced by Illinois and California respectively. Only West Virginia and Hawaii both down [---] percent have lost a bigger share of their latest Census base. On the opposite extreme the states with the biggest population gains were Texas and Florida which have grown by about [---] million and [---] million residents respectively since [----] the Census Bureau estimates. In the latest year alone Texas added [------] and Florida added 196680" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2016916568664314303) 2026-01-29T16:49Z 47.9K followers, 18.4K engagements "El-Sayeds pivot to minimalist Medicare-for-All is shrewd. Its intuitive appealing to many which might be enough. M4A is mostly (entirely) about factional signaling. To the extent you care about the substance trouble is that it would leave the poor worse off. The idea: a public payer guarantees basic coverage for everyone but youd allow people to purchase supplementary coverage to buy their way out of long waits/rationing. Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein published an engaging well-written book sketching this out in [----]. As @CPopeHC explained however the idea has a fatal flaw. QUOTE: Einav and" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2018029540463829069) 2026-02-01T18:31Z 47.9K followers, 15.2K engagements "RT @RushDoshi: Making major concessions just to *meet* with the PRC is usually a mistake. Starmer wanted to show distance from the US. Tha" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2018118554025971951) 2026-02-02T00:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "When Mamdani and allies talk about public education they focus on childcare as a means of providing economic relief combating racial segregation etc. but they have little to say about improving academic achievement. Why Stephen Eide tackles this and more in the latest Bigger Apple. And he adds a political warning as well. QUOTE: If the DSA wants advance out of big cities it will have to shake off the reputation of a movement comprised of unmarried childless twentysomethings whose political engagement stems from unhappiness over the personal choices theyve made. Yes families care about" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019077782995657146) 2026-02-04T15:57Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "RT @joshrauh: This is a blatant straw-man mischaracterization of Economics. From Nobelist Mirrlees (1971) who derived an optimal top margin" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019166898630652175) 2026-02-04T21:51Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @PolicyEngineer: Gov. Lamont's $500 million rebate gimmick (cribbed from NY) is essentially a pay-day loan. Diverting the cash away from" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019176133519110479) 2026-02-04T22:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @judgeglock: Federal stormwater regs are little discussed but they are the number one way the federal government directly increases hou" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019442375479693426) 2026-02-05T16:05Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @ishapiro: John has been doing invaluable work in this area. Grateful that hes now a @ManhattanInst colleague" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019504735930155102) 2026-02-05T20:13Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @AaronBMacLean: Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happeni" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019779998228386221) 2026-02-06T14:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @alexolegimas: Ok but this slaps" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019955941618352421) 2026-02-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @annastansbury: The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through cl" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020239862910324842) 2026-02-07T20:54Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/876850693595963392) 2017-06-19T17:14Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "Jonathan Meer on the Seattle minimum-wage study (in @NRO): http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449080/seattle-minimum-wage-university-washington-study-critics-wrong http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449080/seattle-minimum-wage-university-washington-study-critics-wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/880441008269520896) 2017-06-29T15:01Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Great piece by @DashkaSlater: http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/north-dakota-norway-prisons-experiment/ http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/north-dakota-norway-prisons-experiment/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/890271727833493504) 2017-07-26T18:04Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Good piece but treats whites as monolithic. First-gen college non-rich rural/small-metro whites underrepresented https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/896121978796466177) 2017-08-11T21:31Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "The best "Why I'm running" statement I've ever read from a GOP candidate: https://randyboyd.com/why-im-running/ https://randyboyd.com/why-im-running/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/899428435508043777) 2017-08-21T00:30Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "I've been waiting for this piece . http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/23/american-anarchy-parallels-chinas-cultural-revolution/ http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/23/american-anarchy-parallels-chinas-cultural-revolution/" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/900394253108555776) 2017-08-23T16:28Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Yuval Levin on the standing crisis: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450835/trump-and-chaos-yuval-levin http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450835/trump-and-chaos-yuval-levin" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/901201722680500224) 2017-08-25T21:56Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/876850693595963392) 2017-06-19T17:14Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "This is because of the TCJA's limit on the deduction for state and local taxes - known as the SALT cap. That change hit particularly hard for residents of NY which is one of the highest-taxed states in the U.S. https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/mamdani-gets-an-important-tax-fact-wrong/ https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/mamdani-gets-an-important-tax-fact-wrong/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023868500897661034) 2026-02-17T21:13Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements "To justify his plan for taxing the rich @NYCMayor claimed in Albany last week that NY's millionaires are reaping a $12B yearly windfall from the Trump tax cuts. IRS data say otherwise. The [----] legislation extended in [----] *raised* taxes for the average NY millionaire" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023867677350261242) 2026-02-17T21:10Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements "RT @fuller_brandon: Time to restore authority and accountability to boards of trustees for public university systems (and the Governors who" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023828258849206767) 2026-02-17T18:33Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Time to restore authority and accountability to boards of trustees for public university systems (and the Governors who account for the majority of their appointments). Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang argue boards need stronger oversight to ensure transparency and accountability. 🧵 https://t.co/27NDwOhElB Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023825548020171126) 2026-02-17T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang argue boards need stronger oversight to ensure transparency and accountability. 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023824110644756521) 2026-02-17T18:17Z 86.1K followers, [----] engagements "@dany_egorov @NewYorker The article got another fact wrong. Former mayor DeBlasio ended the G&T test not Adams. https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2021/1/28/22253729/nyc-testing-gifted-admissions https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2021/1/28/22253729/nyc-testing-gifted-admissions" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022501584769552902) 2026-02-14T02:42Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "Another question: "But those trends have little connection to G. & T. and much more to do with the affordability crisis driving young families out of the city and with disillusionment in the citys public schools that arose from covid-era closures and remote learning." Have you seen the NYC public schools survey that shows that the #1 reason why parents left NYC DOE schools is lack of academic rigor https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022368391432909133 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022368391432909133" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022368391432909133) 2026-02-13T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I have a question for Jessica Winter writer for @NewYorker. She writes "parents in an underfunded overcrowded public system are compelled to compete against each other for scarce resources." Does she think NYC spending $42000 per child is underfunded NYC has lost 10% of its student population since [----]. Is that overcrowded Actually NYC now has a problem of tiny under enrolled schools: [--] schools had less than [---] students last year - this year the number is [---] schools. Are there any fact checkers at The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/new-york-citys-gifted-problem" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022366565002313794) 2026-02-13T17:45Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements "RT @bhargreaves: This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022652370459455510) 2026-02-14T12:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes). Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022650554661364038) 2026-02-14T12:34Z 16.3K followers, 188.3K engagements "Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes). Upsizing in Biloxi: We spent the last [--] years in an apartment [--] years in Chicago & now [--] years here said Mrs. Harlow [--]. And that whole time weve had what I call a one-butt kitchen where you cant walk past each other https://t.co/fsSYnzTAJE https://t.co/7ZXM2vONtv Upsizing in Biloxi: We spent the last [--] years in an apartment [--] years in Chicago & now 2" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021966717740871787) 2026-02-12T15:16Z 34.6K followers, 462.2K engagements "We all refer to things imprecisely sometimes. https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022443267628154901) 2026-02-13T22:50Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "(Useful context: "The person in question was holding a knife and was asked more than [--] times to drop it before being shot.")" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022443866175987741) 2026-02-13T22:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "Done. I have literally written more articles (and books) about NYC transportation and transit for more news/opinion/advocacy outlets for more mayoral administrations (five) than anyone else in the NYC press corps I have an active press pass and I have consistently come to the mayor's press conferences since his inauguration including in Albany. So I'm truly curious who on this list is more qualified than me to attend a transpo/transit press conference :/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022386488659361963 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022386488659361963" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022386488659361963) 2026-02-13T19:04Z 13.8K followers, 20.4K engagements "@DouthatNYT This is my main takeaway from the decline of the Mellon Foundation. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mellon-foundations-idea-of-social-justice-d73cebf7 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mellon-foundations-idea-of-social-justice-d73cebf7" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022337534752440441) 2026-02-13T15:50Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements "RT @PeterMoskos: I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2022331363010208066) 2026-02-13T15:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements "I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such as assault and robbery drive away in a fancy car. Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022121209480253782) 2026-02-13T01:30Z 16.4K followers, 608.6K engagements "Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022105858604454144) 2026-02-13T00:29Z [----] followers, 5.2M engagements "RT @Noahpinion: Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022136098387111999) 2026-02-13T02:29Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable. Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in freezing weather. Mamdani ended that policy & [--] people died. Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022134373714464863) 2026-02-13T02:22Z 397.6K followers, 44K engagements "Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in freezing weather. Mamdani ended that policy & [--] people died. NEW: city hall has confirmed a 19th outdoor death. We were also made aware of one more additional death after an individual was found unresponsive on the street under the Manhattan Bridge last evening. #NBC4NY NEW: city hall has confirmed a 19th outdoor death. We were also made aware of one more additional death after" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021711762744082838) 2026-02-11T22:23Z [----] followers, 5M engagements "Great new research out from @SearchlightInst on a tool that can help make child care affordable in the U.S with a simple fix let child care centers open above ground" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020940879322820866) 2026-02-09T19:20Z 10.7K followers, 26.9K engagements "Rep. Ro Khanna showed up at the anti-ICE protest outside the Super Bowl organized and led by revolutionary groups. Youd think hed at least notice FRSO on the signs and ask Who are these people If he did hed find a Maoist organization whose circle was investigated by the Obama-era FBI including the [----] raids tied to a material support probe. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666133146202185 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666133146202185" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020666133146202185) 2026-02-09T01:08Z 40.8K followers, 13.3K engagements "RT @annastansbury: The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through cl" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020239862910324842) 2026-02-07T20:54Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade -- increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020168240140546359) 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, 15.2K engagements "One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps. https://t.co/o1jikg4Rbv I will be enthusiastically" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020168162432426273) 2026-02-07T16:09Z 20.3K followers, 25.9K engagements "RT @alexolegimas: Ok but this slaps" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019955941618352421) 2026-02-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Ok but this slaps [----] Soviet New Wave. https://t.co/nu9vrqf17T [----] Soviet New Wave. https://t.co/nu9vrqf17T" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019894947147567607) 2026-02-06T22:04Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements "1985 Soviet New Wave" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019609171512209787) 2026-02-06T03:08Z 451.7K followers, 370K engagements "NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like: https://t.co/m3CONAPo7u NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like: https://t.co/m3CONAPo7u" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019709563550028163) 2026-02-06T09:47Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements "NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019606873100652561) 2026-02-06T02:59Z 103.4K followers, 149.3K engagements "This is important and very relevant for NYC under Zohran. You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019794856671846808) 2026-02-06T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements "You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes This is the Jawando-Elrich economy in a nutshell: rent control means the only way new housing pencils is w/ sig gov subsidy w/ the bill footed by the taxpayer & bc subsidies are often in the form of abatements etc they raise taxes to fund what unsubsidized projects would have https://t.co/8bxG8BaUIl This is the Jawando-Elrich economy in a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019792046710526039) 2026-02-06T15:15Z 43.8K followers, 22.6K engagements "RT @AaronBMacLean: Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happeni" [X Link](https://x.com/reihan/status/2019779998228386221) 2026-02-06T14:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements "Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happening in the world how voters perceive that as affecting their own security and well-being and what the leaders they support say. My latest in @TheFP. MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://t.co/LtE3ODzWBU MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://t.co/LtE3ODzWBU" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019505549566693534) 2026-02-05T20:16Z [----] followers, 11K engagements "MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-voters-will-back-an-iran-striketaid=6984f1369c5d9c0001fd745e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-voters-will-back-an-iran-striketaid=6984f1369c5d9c0001fd745e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019495332095140203) 2026-02-05T19:36Z 644.2K followers, 16.2K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"First see Matthew Lilley on the long-run effects of right-to-work laws. If hes right and he makes a convincing case the PRO Act would do a lot of damage: Our results suggest that RTW laws produce substantial economic benefits which accrue to workers through stronger local labor markets and more generally through improved socioeconomic outcomes especially for children and families that are more economically at risk. https://manhattan.institute/article/long-run-effects-of-right-to-work-laws https://manhattan.institute/article/long-run-effects-of-right-to-work-laws"
X Link 2024-11-23T00:59Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Migrant waves are the product of shifts in destination countries. What changed in [----] was not conditions in source countries -- it was the Biden administration sharp shift both rhetorically and in practice to a more permissive stance. @NewYorker Once Biden took office he almost immediately loosened immigration policy. He ended Trumps Remain in Mexico. Biden rescinded an order that called for the prompt removal of undocumented immigrants. He halted construction of the wall. https://t.co/e3dbhMoUjA @NewYorker Once Biden took office he almost immediately loosened immigration policy. He ended"
X Link 2024-12-12T20:00Z 47.9K followers, 29K engagements
"From Tim Dalys post on the drivers of urban school enrollment decline: In [----] Chicago recorded [-----] births to city residents. In [----] there were only [-----]. This decrease of [--] percent is often overlooked because Chicagos overall population dropped only [--] percent in that same time span. The average number of children born per womandropped more in [--] years between [----] and [----] than it did in [--] years from [----] to 2007"
X Link 2025-04-16T17:12Z 47.9K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Theres some evidence to back you up see @arpitrage et al. on the contrast between the California and Texas housing markets: Low property taxes lead to concentrated ownership among elderly empty-nesters limiting housing for financially constrained young families. My instinct is that trading property taxes for income taxes is on net pro-elderly and anti-natal. My instinct is that trading property taxes for income taxes is on net pro-elderly and anti-natal"
X Link 2025-04-23T17:36Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"One thing I don't want to hear from the next NYC mayor: that NYC is "the greatest city in the world." Yes I love NYC. But greatest-cityism is an implicit argument that we don't need to care about our eroding value proposition and that anyone who points to the dysfunction and inefficiency that plagues local and state government is a hater. That is a counterproductive attitude. It's also parochial. Wake up. There are other cosmopolitan culturally vibrant cities in the world that are more competitive affordable responsive and efficient. Granted they don't all have lovable rats that scarf down"
X Link 2025-06-18T13:31Z 47.9K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Unusually sharp energetic capable. Though I'm sure there are issues where we'd disagree Fazio has a gift for engaging thoughtfully with different perspectives and he's just incredibly public-spirited. We need more candidates of this caliber in both parties. Im in. Today Im announcing my campaign for governor of my home state of Connecticut. I know our state deserves better than sky-high electricity bills and taxes and jobs leaving our state. With a positive change the best days can be ahead of us. Together lets change https://t.co/XagNZ3wiSx Im in. Today Im announcing my campaign for governor"
X Link 2025-08-14T17:48Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Heres a dilemma for those of us who want NYC to build much more housing. Yes the citys ambitious rezoning of Midtown South that will allow (in theory) for more homes. For that to happen however projects need to pencil out i.e. they need to be economically feasible. So will big multifamily projects in Midtown South be economically feasible when you layer on stringent affordable housing mandates offset the cost of those mandates with a tax exemption but then make the tax exemption less generous by adding in prevailing-wage requirements to ensure labor gets a cut then keep in mind that investors"
X Link 2025-08-22T15:47Z 47.9K followers, 14K engagements
"Really interesting report by @JaredWalczak on the perils of property tax elimination. The gist: every plausible revenue replacement would be worse and would incline local governments to be (even) more hostile to growth. https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-repeal-replace-revenue/ https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-repeal-replace-revenue/"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:01Z 47.9K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Kudos to @BenKrauss5 for an excellent post on stationary bandits and why NYC and other communities with fixed amenities sticky agglomerations etc. are so often plagued by sclerotic government. https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/the-stationary-bandits-of-new-yorkr=fspm&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewyglesias/p/the-stationary-bandits-of-new-yorkr=fspm&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-06-24T12:18Z 47.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@MattZeitlin Or who understand the law governing the Rent Guidelines Board: https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/"
X Link 2025-10-30T11:55Z 47.6K followers, [---] engagements
"From EJ McMahon: Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York largely on the strength of his promises to boost affordability with expanded city spending on child care housing and transit buses. But hes taking the helm of a municipal government that can barely afford to cover its current spending commitments based on annual year-end financial reviews from the citys four governmental fiscal monitors. The findings of staff reports issued this month by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli city Comptroller Brad Lander the state Financial Control Board (FCB) and city Independent Budget Office (IBO)"
X Link 2026-01-02T14:49Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Thoughts from my brilliant colleague @eric_kober: It's early days but Mamdani now owns a series of interlocking crises one of which is the stock of financially-distressed rent-stabilized buildings that do not generate enough income to cover operations and maintenance. Allowing the current owners to collect enough rent to break even is a political nonstarter and in any event not something he can do without the state legislature.What he can do is exercise the city's powers under Article 7A of the state Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law which empowers the city to seek court appointment"
X Link 2026-01-02T16:34Z 47.7K followers, 14.8K engagements
""In our interviews the mayor-elect conspicuously avoided acknowledging the kinds of basic trade-offs that are the DNA of the office he is about to assume." -- @freedlander: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-office-is-he-ready-new-york-city.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-office-is-he-ready-new-york-city.html"
X Link 2026-01-02T21:27Z 47.7K followers, 17.2K engagements
"In today's Bigger Apple newsletter: @eric_kober on the risks of repeating history as Mayor Mamdani faces NYC's rent-stabilized housing crisis. https://thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/rental-ripoffs-and-economic-realities https://thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/rental-ripoffs-and-economic-realities"
X Link 2026-01-05T20:46Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@mattyglesias One small point of clarification: he endorsed the pro-housing charter amendments on Election Day: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/how-mamdani-voted-ballot-proposals/409281/ https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/how-mamdani-voted-ballot-proposals/409281/"
X Link 2026-01-06T15:28Z 47.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Sane clarifying thread. I'd only add that bold innovative geniuses on the U.S. left and right are working to ensure we lose our growth advantage because of (a) some combo of ignorance and hubris or (b) a belief that leveling-down egalitarianism is good for the soul. Here is my own view in a few tweets if thats of interest to anyone. There is an obvious and growing GDP/capita gap (of the order of 80%) between US and core Western Europe when measured in dollars. It matters for international trade tourism military projecting power etc. Here is my own view in a few tweets if thats of interest to"
X Link 2026-01-23T01:16Z 47.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"This essay by @JKetcham91 in the latest @CityJournal is a pleasure to read especially if you happen to love the place you're from: https://www.city-journal.org/article/astoria-queens-new-york-evolution https://www.city-journal.org/article/astoria-queens-new-york-evolution"
X Link 2024-12-27T17:12Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If youre at all interested in the policy debates shaping the future of NYC I highly recommend @ManhattanInsts Bigger Apple newsletter edited by the great @lienazagare: https://manhattan.institute/article/the-bigger-apple-newsletter-feb-14-2025 https://manhattan.institute/article/the-bigger-apple-newsletter-feb-14-2025"
X Link 2025-02-15T21:48Z 47.9K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Dont become numb to this NY. The discovery law is shameful ideologically-driven nonsense that is putting lives at risk not a sane administrable evidence-based measure to ensure a fair trial. In @nypost I tell the story of Maya whose boyfriend stripped & beat her--and then walked free thanks to NY's radical dumb [----] discovery law. But last week NY's Legislature omitted ANY fixes to this bad law from its Budget draft. Victims deserve better https://t.co/cgYo8IKYZF https://t.co/n62AS85ebj In @nypost I tell the story of Maya whose boyfriend stripped & beat her--and then walked free thanks to"
X Link 2025-03-18T14:55Z 47.9K followers, 12.3K engagements
"This is heading in the right direction But well need to tighten rules of origin requirements which in turn means well need the help of the many trading partners weve been actively alienating. Operation Save Christmas https://t.co/Czv8shIkYW Operation Save Christmas https://t.co/Czv8shIkYW"
X Link 2025-04-23T13:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"We could have started here guys. Per WSJ the trade war may be gaining some coherence. WH is looking at prioritizing China tariffs on strategic industries and phasing them in over five years. https://t.co/7QWpNyIKmW Per WSJ the trade war may be gaining some coherence. WH is looking at prioritizing China tariffs on strategic industries and phasing them in over five years. https://t.co/7QWpNyIKmW"
X Link 2025-04-23T13:59Z 47.9K followers, 127.9K engagements
"The excellent Transit Costs Project report from @ericgoldwyn et al. makes me wonder if the bigger challenge is shared governance of the Northeast Corridor who can compel commuter and intercity systems to work together @eric_kober suggests a new entity to run NEC. The best way to revive passenger rail in the US is to privatize Amtrak. Brightline has a much better record of building and improving passenger service than the government had been able to do. With subsidized credit and land value capture private rail could do more. The best way to revive passenger rail in the US is to privatize"
X Link 2025-06-12T15:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"NYC is polarized between a cross-class status quo coalition comfortable with stagnation and public-sector bloat and a radical one that wants to address the affordability crisis (good) with policies that would intensify it (bad). Regardless of outcome we need something new"
X Link 2025-06-24T12:40Z 47.9K followers, 16.1K engagements
"From @judgeglock in @CityJournal: the red state housing-cost advantage is eroding as the pace of homebuilding slows"
X Link 2025-06-27T17:45Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is spot on and has implications for NYC. [--]. Walkable urbanism is our comparative advantage. NYC can't out-Dallas Dallas or out-Scarsdale Scarsdale. Don't try. Lean into our strengths. [--]. Redistribution is the job of the feds not City Hall. [--]. City Hall's two-fold job: relentlessly counter "demons of density" (disorder crime congestion) and leverage scale/deep labor market to improve public services. A few other big old American cities -- Chicago Philly Boston etc. -- need to step up and Manhattanize themselves for the good of the country NYC can't fulfill America's urban dreams all by"
X Link 2025-08-15T13:59Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Little magazines are scenes. The best of them are built around voices personalities generational sensibilities not just causes movements lines of fracture. @JerusalemDemsas is charming smart and curious and she has a vision for an energetic punchy center-left pub that will argue rather than sneer. Though I expect to disagree with @TheArgumentMag more often than not (as an unrepentant carceral urbanist) I'm rooting for her new venture"
X Link 2025-08-19T22:27Z 47.9K followers, 113.5K engagements
"How do you mask declining or stagnant reading and math scores It's much much easier than you'd think. See this report from @chalkbeatCHI: For example third grade students currently must score [---] out of [---] on the math section of the Illinois Assessment of Readiness to be considered meeting proficiency standards. But under the proposed changes they would only need to score [---] to be labeled proficient. https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/08/12/illinois-proposes-new-cut-scores-for-state-standardized-tests/"
X Link 2025-08-22T02:44Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is important and very relevant for NYC under Zohran. You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Noahpinion: Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:29Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"(Useful context: "The person in question was holding a knife and was asked more than [--] times to drop it before being shot.")"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Essential listening for anyone interested in the U.S. military spending great-power competition and the vulnerable state of U.S. global leadership. @MEaglen senior fellow at @AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijings Military Spending joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in. https://t.co/2tUGV5sqre @MEaglen senior fellow at @AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijings Military Spending joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in."
X Link 2024-12-06T11:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"And this piece touches on how the Biden administration set off its own migrant wave: https://www.thefp.com/p/immigration-is-a-mess-heres-how-to https://www.thefp.com/p/immigration-is-a-mess-heres-how-to"
X Link 2024-12-12T20:01Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Not a rigorous empirical claim: Inflation most important but progressive contempt (perceived or real) for working- lower-middle-class Trump base had spillover on naturalized second-gen and ethnic voters outside of that base with similar cultural instincts. A lot of folks who generally share my politics have tried to argue that negative media vibes on the economy shifted the electorate to the right not the economy itself. But look at the data People following the news via NYT WaPo etc are still shifting left. Its the folks A lot of folks who generally share my politics have tried to argue that"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:21Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"See here: In fairness this is in part a reflection of a byzantine land-use process. But there is a certain evasiveness here. I'll admit to preferring the straightforwardness of the following: https://manhattan.institute/article/what-would-new-york-citys-housing-moonshot-look-like https://static1.squarespace.com/static/67a2f550954e9c463f4a2ef6/t/681ba98b9b089d1f4ffba0fc/1746643340249/State+of+Emergency+-+Addressing+NYC%E2%80%99s+Housing+Crisis.docx.pdf https://manhattan.institute/article/what-would-new-york-citys-housing-moonshot-look-like"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:56Z 47.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Rent is the single largest component of the consumer price index (CPI) and a key determinant of inflation. Our research shows that by increasing rents interest rate hikes can unintentionally drive-up inflation. Boaz Abramson https://business.columbia.edu/press-release/cbs-press-releases/higher-rates-higher-rents-how-monetary-policy-affects-housing https://business.columbia.edu/press-release/cbs-press-releases/higher-rates-higher-rents-how-monetary-policy-affects-housing"
X Link 2025-06-30T17:55Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Another great overview of this literature from @RAVerBruggen: https://www.city-journal.org/article/universal-basic-income-costs-jobs-work A great piece from @KelseyTuoc about the disappointing results from some very well-designed studies of the impact of cash transfers in the domestic poverty context. https://t.co/lBAUA1DKJo https://www.city-journal.org/article/universal-basic-income-costs-jobs-work A great piece from @KelseyTuoc about the disappointing results from some very well-designed studies of the impact of cash transfers in the domestic poverty context. https://t.co/lBAUA1DKJo"
X Link 2025-08-19T12:42Z 47.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Important note from @NYHammond re: NYS math and reading proficiency rates: Why are New Yorks public school students showing steadily higher proficiency levels on state-administered tests when their scores on federal tests have been getting worse Part of the answer seems to lie in the Education Departments grading methods. Over the past dozen years the department has been gradually lowering cut scores the minimum number of questions students have to answer correctly in order to be considered proficient at each grade level."
X Link 2025-08-21T19:47Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Can the next mayor freeze the rent for NYC's 1M rent-regulated apartments You can pack the Rent Guidelines Board with people you expect to reach a predetermined conclusion. But as Christian Browne explains that's just the beginning. https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-freeze-rent-legal-rent-guidelines-board https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-freeze-rent-legal-rent-guidelines-board"
X Link 2025-08-25T18:47Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"In fairness its also annoying to have a leading mayoral candidate who has built his political identity around vehement anti-Zionism since he was a teenager and who seems to have a shallow understanding of how public policy in New York City works e.g. his core campaign commitment to freezing the rent seems to run afoul of the law. https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise/ Honestly its annoying that the moderators had them spend [--] minutes on Israel before they discussed the NYPD or housing or K-12"
X Link 2025-10-17T01:32Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
".@KSoltisAnderson on Melting Pot or Civil War Interested in pre-ordering Try B&N: or Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274/ref=sr_1_1ie=UTF8&qid=1537463715&sr=8-1&keywords=reihan+salam https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/melting-pot-or-civil-war-reihan-salam/1127541559;jsessionid=19FB5EC524948A422AD8A8537C733FBA.prodny_store02-atgap09ean=9780735216273#/ https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274/ref=sr_1_1ie=UTF8&qid=1537463715&sr=8-1&keywords=reihan+salam"
X Link 2018-09-20T17:16Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"My wife made this magical collage in honor of my fantasy basketball team the Brooklyn Nietos. Though my team is pretty bad at the moment I definitely have the best visuals"
X Link 2018-10-24T04:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Just about everyone agrees that racism is bad. But what counts as racism For over fifty years social scientists have relied on modern racism scales to study intergroup attitudes. This is a rich http://x.com/i/article/1796274313181401088 http://x.com/i/article/1796274313181401088"
X Link 2024-05-30T20:35Z 47.9K followers, 49K engagements
"Industrial policy can never fail. We can only fail industrial policy. For this industrial policy experiment to end well the next chapter needs among other things to create a whole new class of demand inducements. Perhaps starting with Detroit. For this industrial policy experiment to end well the next chapter needs among other things to create a whole new class of demand inducements. Perhaps starting with Detroit"
X Link 2024-09-13T22:24Z 47.9K followers, 84.5K engagements
"Why might we have seen a decline in Democratic support in deep-blue states Was it housing costs (see @jbarro: Rising public disorder (see @CharlesFLehman: The attenuation of ethnic identity/emergence of a multiethnic mainstream (see: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/anti-racialism-ibram-kendi-anti-racism/638433/ https://thecausalfallacy.com/p/your-revolution-is-over-mr-lebowski https://www.joshbarro.com/p/another-theory-on-why-electoral-college https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/anti-racialism-ibram-kendi-anti-racism/638433/"
X Link 2024-11-06T19:47Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Harris rose to prominence by placating core Democratic constituencies not by winning over skeptics or by demonstrating the ability to make hard choices. Successful Dems say no to the hard left: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/"
X Link 2024-11-07T03:00Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Per Ezra's thoughts below this was my take on a key Harris vulnerability -- her unwillingness to say no to political allies: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ A few thoughts from the conversations Ive been having and hearing over the last week: The hard question isnt the [--] points that wouldve decided the election. Its how to build a Democratic Party that isnt always [--] points away from losing to Donald Trump or worse. The https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/harris-campaign/680249/ A few thoughts from the conversations Ive been having"
X Link 2024-11-11T14:52Z 47.9K followers, 18.5K engagements
"Yes. The deterioration of public safety is not a partisan issue. NYS Republicans have an opening but so do Democrats who recognize that the decarceration experiment has gone too far. Some New Yorkers may have felt a sense of relief after the red wave election but this stabbing spree is a grim reminder that the election that really counts for New Yorkers is happening next year. The change we need is going to come from Albany and City Hall not Washington. Some New Yorkers may have felt a sense of relief after the red wave election but this stabbing spree is a grim reminder that the election"
X Link 2024-11-19T22:35Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@InnovateEconomy And a third thought: if you care about improving the quality and cost-effectiveness public services collective bargaining in the public sector has a pretty bad track record. See the work of @DiSalvoCCNY: https://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Consequences/dp/0199990743 https://www.amazon.com/Government-against-Itself-Public-Consequences/dp/0199990743"
X Link 2024-11-23T01:09Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"New Yorks approach to education spending: more spending less accountability deteriorating educational performance. I wrote how NY education budget has ballooned under @GovKathyHochul while the Board of Regents eliminated most tools to assess learning; [--] - lower state standards [--] - no more HS graduation exam [--] - no more chronic absenteeism data https://t.co/Byvprg1t7Y I wrote how NY education budget has ballooned under @GovKathyHochul while the Board of Regents eliminated most tools to assess learning; [--] - lower state standards [--] - no more HS graduation exam [--] - no more chronic absenteeism"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Crime is not a product of poverty. It stems from a corrosive sense of entitlementhow dare this person not smile at me give me what I want show me due deference Why should I respect those who are weaker than me or who have too much to lose to do anything As Ive said repeatedly: Engagement in obviously antisocial behavior in public settingslike playing music on a speaker when no one asked to hear itis often an expression of power backed by the threat of violence. The punk with the speaker is daring you to say something and As Ive said repeatedly: Engagement in obviously antisocial behavior in"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:33Z 47.9K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Walkable urbanism is severely undersupplied. However disorder vitiates the attractiveness of dense urban environments hence the boom in (orderly) walkable exurban downtowns. We're squandering an enormous opportunity. "To understand why middle-income families with children are moving from relatively safe New York to relatively less-safe cities in Florida Georgia and Texas consider that its much cheaper to insulate yourself from urban disorder in a single-family house in a Sunbelt suburb" "To understand why middle-income families with children are moving from relatively safe New York to"
X Link 2025-01-06T21:31Z 47.9K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Blue-state NIMBYism including blue-state Republican NIMBYism is downstream of declining faith in blue-state governance. If you believe local government can and will mitigate the downsides of density you'll be much more open to it. If not you'll raise the drawbridge"
X Link 2025-06-10T21:40Z 47.9K followers, 42.4K engagements
"Subtle smart guide to understanding the obstacles facing reformers in NYC. The center-rights failure to gain traction in New Yorks mayoral race can be explained in part by the coalitions behind the two leading candidates. Cuomos base is content with the status quo and Mamdanis wants more public spending and higher taxes. https://t.co/ZIlvimDtOA The center-rights failure to gain traction in New Yorks mayoral race can be explained in part by the coalitions behind the two leading candidates. Cuomos base is content with the status quo and Mamdanis wants more public spending and higher taxes."
X Link 2025-06-25T00:47Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Didnt quite clear the bar for an internship at The Nation but Ive got an idea how about Fun Fact: Zohran Mamdani applied to @thenation Internship program soon after he graduated from Bowdoin and was rejected. He never re-applied -but probably good that we didnt steer him into journalism. Fun Fact: Zohran Mamdani applied to @thenation Internship program soon after he graduated from Bowdoin and was rejected. He never re-applied -but probably good that we didnt steer him into journalism"
X Link 2025-06-26T18:35Z 47.9K followers, 19.8K engagements
"Rehn and Meidner thought rising labor bargaining power would discipline firms those unable to pay higher wages would exit sparking structural transformation. What they didnt anticipate was that customers would be willing to toss their own Lobster Cobb Salad. @TheStalwart wait it's $97 and you have to toss it yourself https://t.co/90cWsVZG0L @TheStalwart wait it's $97 and you have to toss it yourself https://t.co/90cWsVZG0L"
X Link 2025-07-09T18:00Z 47.9K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Being part of a cohesive high-trust mutually supportive community is already an enormous advantage. If we really are entering a more chaotic moral/cultural/economic moment that advantage will grow which in turn will intensify resentment from those on the outside. its hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened but sometime in the last five years our world shifted from most people being resonable high social trust actors to grifting scamming and violence being the norm and i don't think we're going back to high trust society. its hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened but sometime in the last"
X Link 2025-08-09T13:14Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] David Dinkins was a self-described democratic socialist who campaigned on moving homeless families into permanent housing; expanding public services for low-income families more broadly; and racial healing and unity. Faced with a deep recession and an intensifying crack epidemic however his term was instead marked by a turn towards austerity and rising racial and ethnic tension. Rather than expand social services the citys economic woes compelled him to raise taxes and constrain social spending. Dinkinss main policy achievement not one he campaigned on was a large expansion of the"
X Link 2025-08-14T12:33Z 47.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"As of [----] the over-65 population is 61.2M and the under-18 population is 73.1M. Within the next decade the ratio of over-65s to under-18s is projected to hit 1:1. I'm generally an optimist but I think is the sort of self-reinforcing problem that is only going to get worse. An aging population means less public support for pro-children policy which results in incrementally fewer children. I'm generally an optimist but I think is the sort of self-reinforcing problem that is only going to get worse. An aging population means less public support for pro-children policy which results in"
X Link 2025-08-22T02:31Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Love Tap Left Also: Punching someone in the face is a misdemeanor You sure thats the kind of city you want to live in Also: Punching someone in the face is a misdemeanor You sure thats the kind of city you want to live in"
X Link 2025-08-24T17:43Z 47.9K followers, 14.7K engagements
"I've had the privilege of knowing admiring learning from @bariweiss for a decently long time. She is a dynamo: creative tenacious obsessive hardworking a strange combination of heart and head motivated a deep love of the American project. I don't know anyone who is more ferociously loyal to friends or keener to find elevate and fight for talent. This is hard to explain but her friendship has the force of a laser beam. If she did not exist we'd have to invent her. Paramount to buy Bari Weiss Free Press for up to $200M give her senior editorial role at CBS News https://t.co/9RNlpiNdCs"
X Link 2025-09-04T12:33Z 47.9K followers, 74.1K engagements
"Being governor will from time to time involve having unhappy experiences. I cannot believe how bad this interview is [--] minutes and it just totally devolves. https://t.co/5FU7rJifBV I cannot believe how bad this interview is [--] minutes and it just totally devolves. https://t.co/5FU7rJifBV"
X Link 2025-10-08T01:56Z 47.9K followers, 59.2K engagements
"By the time Bill de Blasio was elected mayor he had served for a term as NYC Public Advocate two terms representing the 39th district in the City Council and even a stint as an elected member of a local school board in Brooklyn. Whatever you think of his tenure cant say I was a fan he had a solid understanding of how city government worked which undoubtedly proved helpful. Zohrans plan for handling dangerous mentally unwell individuals in New York is to model care after the non-profit Fountain House. But Fountain Houses own policy says: Membership is open to anyone with a history of mental"
X Link 2025-10-15T20:37Z 47.9K followers, 16.1K engagements
"The next gubernatorial race could be interesting. Together Cuomo & Sliwa also drew well over [--] million votes854k+ for Cuomo alone. Cuomo lost this race with 100k more votes than Adams WON it with four years ago when Adams' vote share was 67%. Turnout was massive & Mamdani badly underperformed as the Democratic nominee. https://t.co/2xCYUyFae2 Together Cuomo & Sliwa also drew well over [--] million votes854k+ for Cuomo alone. Cuomo lost this race with 100k more votes than Adams WON it with four years ago when Adams' vote share was 67%. Turnout was massive & Mamdani badly underperformed as the"
X Link 2025-11-05T05:25Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @nicolegelinas: Mamdani is suspiciously slow about giving us even a hint about his vision for this one of two parts of his platform that"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:21Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"We all refer to things imprecisely sometimes. https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:50Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Chris you might have to run for governor. https://x.com/chrislhayes/status/875381763316609024 .@NYGovCuomo what are you doing about the subways What are you doing about the subways What are you doing about be subwaysWhat are you d https://x.com/chrislhayes/status/875381763316609024 .@NYGovCuomo what are you doing about the subways What are you doing about the subways What are you doing about be subwaysWhat are you d"
X Link 2017-06-15T16:21Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Though as to why opinion journalism is often so toxic: it attracts people who are looking for socially acceptable ways to be contemptuous"
X Link 2017-07-10T17:51Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"A bit of friendly Flake skepticism (in @Slate): http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/jeff_flake_is_not_the_future_of_the_republican_party.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/jeff_flake_is_not_the_future_of_the_republican_party.html"
X Link 2017-08-02T23:14Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The latest from @CityJournal: a powerful and important @bariweiss piece on the fear self-censorship turmoil in America's elite private schools and what it might mean for our ideological future: https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites"
X Link 2021-03-09T21:51Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"That Hochul would decree an exemption for city workers is also a handy guide to New Yorks Democratic governing philosophy: The rest of us exist for the convenience of government. Hochuls new plan: congestion pricing for thee but not for me https://t.co/nKam57JVQP https://t.co/CIDkWzIoRl Hochuls new plan: congestion pricing for thee but not for me https://t.co/nKam57JVQP https://t.co/CIDkWzIoRl"
X Link 2024-08-25T01:22Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I dont know how Trump II will approach legal immigration but its misleading to suggest that a renewed public-charge push amounts to a reduction in legal admissions for better or worse. High-pool countries have long waitlists for oversubscribed visa categories (e.g. family preference visas employment-based visas). Modernizing public-charge rules will mean that newcomers will have higher earning potential on average not that legal inflows will necessarily be lower. That could still happen but not because of a more sensible public-charge standard. The following is from [----]. Dated but the broad"
X Link 2024-11-08T17:06Z 47.9K followers, 18.6K engagements
"This is the trap that our 21st-century presidents have tended to fall into. They win elections because their opponents were unpopular and thenimagining the public has endorsed their party activists agendathey use the power of their office to make themselves unpopular. This is why the public moved left on key issues during Trumps first term and right during Bidens. Voters in this election rejected the excesses and failures of the left far more than they endorsed the rightor much of anything else. Yuval Levin in The Dispatch https://thedispatch.com/article/what-trumps-win-doesnt-mean/"
X Link 2024-11-11T21:25Z 47.9K followers, 32.5K engagements
"Judging by her sponsorship of the PRO Act its fair to say @LChavezDeRemer is pro-union. But theres a difference between being pro-union and pro-worker. Two quick thoughts come to mind. 🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Congresswoman @LChavezDeRemer as Secretary of Labor. https://t.co/Clbz88Jg6N 🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of Congresswoman @LChavezDeRemer as Secretary of Labor. https://t.co/Clbz88Jg6N"
X Link 2024-11-23T00:56Z 47.9K followers, 38.5K engagements
"This is an outstanding choice. @SteveMiran is sharp thoughtful creative and a patriot through and through. Were all immensely proud of the work hes done at @ManhattanInst and were excited for whats to come. I am beyond honored that President Trump has chosen me to lead his Council of Economic Advisers. I look forward to working to help implement the President's policy agenda to create a booming noninflationary economy that brings prosperity to all Americans https://t.co/CROmzuk61v I am beyond honored that President Trump has chosen me to lead his Council of Economic Advisers. I look forward"
X Link 2024-12-22T15:55Z 47.9K followers, 21K engagements
"Easily one of the sharpest most creative most talented young journalists in America. This is another coup for the great @BrianAcity and the team hes building at @CityJournal. Some professional news: As of today I am officially senior editor @CityJournal. Don't worry I'll still be writing and researching. But I'll also be taking on some duties on with CJ. Including commissioning pieceswhich you should pitch me🧵 https://t.co/v8V1s8Aa8Z Some professional news: As of today I am officially senior editor @CityJournal. Don't worry I'll still be writing and researching. But I'll also be taking on"
X Link 2025-02-24T23:06Z 47.9K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Recent events bring to mind the inherent tension between protectionism and restrictionism. Until AI obviates the need for human labor autarky is far more (low-skill) labor-intensive than openness to labor-intensive imports. Piece is from 2018"
X Link 2025-04-05T12:43Z 47.9K followers, 16.8K engagements
"Medicaid is not a single federal program for the poor that treats poor people across states more or less equally i.e. with a single benefit package and COLA-adjusted eligibility standard. Some state programs are drastically more generous and expansive than others. The question is not whether to deprive poor people of medical care it is whether to continue giving rich-state legislatures the right to extract unlimited federal dollars to cover people further and further up the income scale. Shots fired: Sen. Moreno tells me Houses Medicaid proposals amount to cutting benefits and cant pass"
X Link 2025-04-30T01:46Z 47.9K followers, 47.8K engagements
"There is less here than meets the eye. If you impose regulations that raise costs and limit the potential upside of private development (deed-restricted affordability requirements prevailing wage good-cause eviction etc.) you won't get much private development no matter how much you upzone. This is a great answer from @ZohranKMamdani https://t.co/K4fOXHPAXt This is a great answer from @ZohranKMamdani https://t.co/K4fOXHPAXt"
X Link 2025-06-10T15:09Z 47.9K followers, 58.8K engagements
"Best most underappreciated economics columnist in the game: @greg_ip of @WSJ. This is such a clear substantive concise account of the urban housing challenge: https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/nyc-mayor-election-housing-costs-c1f88bcbmod=author_content_page_1_pos_1 https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/nyc-mayor-election-housing-costs-c1f88bcbmod=author_content_page_1_pos_1"
X Link 2025-06-27T13:20Z 47.9K followers, 11.2K engagements
""The Medicaid cuts in this law largely depend for their implementation on state governments that have no interest in seeing them happen" https://t.co/TNMEPP1hSi "The Medicaid cuts in this law largely depend for their implementation on state governments that have no interest in seeing them happen" https://t.co/TNMEPP1hSi"
X Link 2025-07-07T20:07Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a good excuse for me to observe that @aaronsibarium is brilliant hard-working tenacious exceedingly well-read. Though hes thrived as an investigative journalist hes also a really excellent essayist. Im a fan. This is from a profile of yours truly that Abramson just published in the Boston Globe. It's a nice highlight reel of some of our most impactful scoops. https://t.co/5Ls2t0qCwM https://t.co/h086zRzeNZ This is from a profile of yours truly that Abramson just published in the Boston Globe. It's a nice highlight reel of some of our most impactful scoops. https://t.co/5Ls2t0qCwM"
X Link 2025-07-16T17:08Z 47.9K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Working-class coalition. Big education gaps. Mamdani won the young college graduates by landslide. And turned them out. https://t.co/CjfVtfZ2Po Big education gaps. Mamdani won the young college graduates by landslide. And turned them out. https://t.co/CjfVtfZ2Po"
X Link 2025-11-05T05:29Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Saddened by thought of internet trolls who are parents who really should be bonding with their kids. (But maybe the kids are better off)"
X Link 2017-07-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Great article but might have been worth mentioning that McCain [--] proposed curbing exclusion and was denounced by the Obama campaign. https://x.com/sangerkatz/status/883663479877640192 https://x.com/sangerkatz/status/883663479877640192"
X Link 2017-07-08T16:10Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"This is a great exercise. I often wind up thinking this way as my own preferences aren't especially popular. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/883347049239937024 https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/883347049239937024"
X Link 2017-07-08T16:28Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Having more CT Republicans and OK Democrats in Congress would change our politics for the better: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/opinion/how-to-make-congress-bipartisan.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/opinion/how-to-make-congress-bipartisan.html"
X Link 2017-07-08T16:33Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Ive known and admired Oren for years both as a friend and as a colleague. His work is consistently thought-provoking and creative and Ill be following his new venture with great interest. You should too Personal announcement: I will be leaving @ManhattanInst at year's end to start a new organization whose mission is to redefine the economic orthodoxy that guides the nation's politics and public policy. We will be launching publicly in the spring. 1/4 Personal announcement: I will be leaving @ManhattanInst at year's end to start a new organization whose mission is to redefine the economic"
X Link 2019-12-10T13:44Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@CityJournal is looking for an exceptional digital editor. Success in this role requires an editors sensibility for detail speed accuracy and storytelling. It requires a digital marketers creativity visual acuity and ability to craft and carry out data-driven strategies. And it requires a few essential personal qualitieschiefly sophistication discretion wit and a commitment to excellenceneeded to maintain fidelity to City Journals legacy while attracting and engaging new audiences. https://manhattan.institute/job/digital-editor-city-journal"
X Link 2024-07-18T20:55Z 47.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
""Compared with the classes of [----] through [----] the number of first-generation college students rose from [--] percent to [--] percent and the number of students eligible for Pell grants increased from [--] percent to [--] percent. MIT actually became more diverse based on socioeconomic measures perhaps partly in response to the ruling." Both MIT and the media advertised the changes in the racial makeup of incoming freshmen as reducing diversity but other factors are also at play write Peter Arcidiacono and @tyleransom. https://t.co/Gvnuf1gRAM Both MIT and the media advertised the changes in the"
X Link 2024-08-29T18:53Z 47.9K followers, 38.7K engagements
"As @judgeglock has outlined this is a much bigger deal than is commonly understood: https://www.city-journal.org/article/end-minority-contracting This is true and its a major problem. Texas needs to turn off its racist minority-contracting nonsense. As does DoD which has TENS of BILLIONS of dollars of the same @DOGE All over the USA pass-through govt sales via sketchy DEI contractors mark up 10-40% and re-sell. https://www.city-journal.org/article/end-minority-contracting This is true and its a major problem. Texas needs to turn off its racist minority-contracting nonsense. As does DoD which"
X Link 2025-02-27T03:42Z 47.9K followers, 15.9K engagements
"cc @ManhattanInst there's an emerging "dark abundance" policy bundle where you embrace texas/florida housing policy bountiful natural gas guiliani style carceral ubranism and value economic growth over redistribution there's an emerging "dark abundance" policy bundle where you embrace texas/florida housing policy bountiful natural gas guiliani style carceral ubranism and value economic growth over redistribution"
X Link 2025-04-01T19:03Z 47.9K followers, 11.1K engagements
"The anti-abundance agenda It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships driving up infrastructure costs. https://t.co/o2YJpldizm It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships driving up infrastructure costs. https://t.co/o2YJpldizm"
X Link 2025-06-20T20:34Z 47.9K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Peter Orszag is a pragmatic thoughtful Democrat who served with distinction under President Obama. By expressing concern about the ideological direction of his party he isnt cheerleading for the GOP which has its own problems. Hes urging a course correction. "I'm saddened to say that I think the Democratic Party is becoming increasingly antisemitic and anti-capitalism." @Lazard CEO Peter Orszag issues a stark warning to @SaraEisen and @davidfaber following Zohran Mamdani's upset in the NYC mayoral primary: https://t.co/ySnGp6cdyO "I'm saddened to say that I think the Democratic Party is"
X Link 2025-06-27T02:02Z 47.9K followers, 25.3K engagements
"Married father of two with a third baby on the way working an off-duty security detail to help build a life for his family. Thinking of the families of those killed in this evenings shooting on Park Avenue especially the loved ones of the brave off-duty NYPD Officer that was reportedly killed. Grateful to live in a city where hundreds of brave NYPD officers were able to respond so quickly. Thinking of the families of those killed in this evenings shooting on Park Avenue especially the loved ones of the brave off-duty NYPD Officer that was reportedly killed. Grateful to live in a city where"
X Link 2025-07-29T02:48Z 47.9K followers, 81.4K engagements
"Sneakily the most consequential thing that happened in NYC politics in 2025: Mamdani allies succeeded in keeping the Charter Review Commission from proposing a ballot initiative to create an open primary top-two system. Given the result its easy to see why"
X Link 2025-11-05T05:32Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @PeterMoskos: I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @bhargreaves: This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"A note from @charlescwcooke the editor of @NRO: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450696/note-magazines-age-twitter http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450696/note-magazines-age-twitter"
X Link 2017-08-22T15:20Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Recently @AEI @HooverInst and @ManhattanInst co-hosted a small gathering on race in American life. I was particularly delighted to speak with @cvaldary @DelanoSquires and Mene Ukueberuwa of @WSJopinion about the future of Black identity: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oz8GJ_Sslxw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oz8GJ_Sslxw"
X Link 2024-08-08T14:11Z 47.9K followers, 10.6K engagements
"If NYC built [------] new housing units over the next decade the city would be affordable for striving newcomers; foster entrepreneurship and economic vitality; and reverse the city's decline in cultural and political influence. What would it take to get there Read @eric_kober NYC's Mayor Adams set a "moonshot" goal of [------] new housing units in the next decade. In a new issue brief @eric_kober outlines the critical legal and regulatory changes the city must enact to achieve its ambitious goal. https://t.co/8boOcCvgm1 NYC's Mayor Adams set a "moonshot" goal of [------] new housing units in the"
X Link 2024-09-03T20:08Z 47.9K followers, 83.7K engagements
"Lee Zeldin won just over [--] percent of the vote in NYC roughly doubling Molinaros share in [----]. Trump won [--] percent of the NYC vote in [----] and [--] percent in [----]. Kamala Harris with 95% of precincts reporting is polling at 67.8% of the vote in New York City. If that holds that would be the WORST performance for a Democratic Presidential candidate in the five boroughs since [----] () A disastrous evening for Democrats in Gotham. Kamala Harris with 95% of precincts reporting is polling at 67.8% of the vote in New York City. If that holds that would be the WORST performance for a Democratic"
X Link 2024-11-06T04:02Z 47.9K followers, 13.2K engagements
"This is a shrewd strategy for deep-red and deep-blue races. Given the direction of NYS NJ RI and other rightward-trending blue states center-right independents could be a way forward. Sen. Deb Fischer (R) wins re-election @NBCNews projects defeating Dan Osborn (I) who made her work for it. Sen. Deb Fischer (R) wins re-election @NBCNews projects defeating Dan Osborn (I) who made her work for it"
X Link 2024-11-06T05:44Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Second consider the politics. Might a pro-Union stance bolster the working-class realignment Thats not at all clear. Recently @InnovateEconomy released a survey of U.S. workers. While [--] percent of Harris voters believe that labor unions are a net positive for American workers just [--] percent of Trump voters agree. One in five Trump voters believes unions to be net negative while just one in [--] Harris voters says this. (The remainder believe unions are neither positive nor negative.) Perhaps counterintuitively support for unions in general was driven by workers with higher levels of"
X Link 2024-11-23T01:03Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Sweden and Canada: both have seen a pro-immigration consensus collapse after (a) a reckless increase in inflows and (b) a hubristic effort to anathematize even mild restrictionist sentiment. There are lessons here. Sweden has taken immigration below net zero - eg more are now leaving than arriving. It tightened rules upped deportation and agreed to offer up to 25k to those who re-emigrate (aka voluntary repatriation). My column on a changing debate: https://t.co/zKeuw3wrQh Sweden has taken immigration below net zero - eg more are now leaving than arriving. It tightened rules upped deportation"
X Link 2024-11-23T16:13Z 47.9K followers, 45.4K engagements
"Read to understand what Starbucks can teach us about the high cost of public disorder. If you want to know why disorder matters see: https://t.co/HhfEukPlvR If you want to know why disorder matters see: https://t.co/HhfEukPlvR"
X Link 2024-11-25T17:12Z 47.9K followers, 13.5K engagements
"A well-deserved tribute to @AbigailShrier a senior fellow at @ManhattanInst TOTAL AND COMPLETE VINDICATION https://t.co/2zfEvF8Qb1 TOTAL AND COMPLETE VINDICATION https://t.co/2zfEvF8Qb1"
X Link 2024-12-18T01:21Z 47.9K followers, 16.8K engagements
"Im sympathetic to Matts larger point red-state crime merits much closer attention. One part of the story: Trump won more votes (1.2M) in Massachusetts than in Oklahoma (1M) and far more in NYS (3.5M) than in AR (760K). This is irrelevant when it comes to the outcome of a presidential contest. But the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of conservatives and moderates in (e.g.) NYC has bearing on coverage/the discourse. @matthewtradcath @MarcDamon9 I am [---] percent tough on crime I have zero sympathy for anti-police politics on the left. But what I am saying is that I am genuinely"
X Link 2024-12-25T15:00Z 47.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"My parents moved to Brooklyn in [----] when the city was flat on its back. When their friends and neighbors moved to the suburbs they stayed put and played their part in bringing their neighborhood back to life. After my father died his funeral was so packed with neighbors I had never met that I could barely move. It was an intense experience and it helped me make sense of things. When I was in middle school I asked my father how long it took for him to feel at home in America. He said it didn't take him any time at all -- that he felt more at home in New York than he ever had in his native"
X Link 2024-12-27T17:19Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"53 prior arrests. Another individual who just snapped with no warning signs at all what was that about broken-windows policing being debunked https://t.co/N2b5Sh7mWF Another individual who just snapped with no warning signs at all what was that about broken-windows policing being debunked https://t.co/N2b5Sh7mWF"
X Link 2025-01-04T15:14Z 47.9K followers, 12K engagements
"Fragmented dysfunctional unaccountable governance has sapped faith revenue will be used wisely. Only way to restore faith is to demonstrate competence probity efficiency. Question is whether congestion pricing will help or hurt that effort. @humantransit I find compliance costs and how we spend the money most compelling. NYC is going to spend $1b upfront and $115 annually to enforce and then spend the money on small transit expansion (2nd ave) and costly elevators. @humantransit I find compliance costs and how we spend the money most compelling. NYC is going to spend $1b upfront and $115"
X Link 2025-01-06T16:52Z 47.9K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Yes. China has been stockpiling minerals food semiconductors for years. Theyre prepared were not. Reshoring critical supply chains is important. Coloring books arent critical. Makes no sense to burn political capital on crash decoupling for car seats. New pod: American families with young kids aren't ready for what a long trade war with China would mean for everyday life. The business press has been good at reporting on China as a global leader in smartphone and electronics manufacturing. But consider also that as a share of New pod: American families with young kids aren't ready for what a"
X Link 2025-04-16T21:25Z 47.9K followers, 38.9K engagements
"Lander housing plan: a plan to have a Citizen's Assembly make a series of plans and then those plans will go through expedited public review of various sub-plans and then we'll develop regional comprehensive plans including a Mayoral Panel to develop regional plans"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:54Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is not the central point of @dhumes new column but Pakistan (population: 250M) really is an interesting case of hierarchical citizenship see policies towards Ahmadi Muslims Hudood Ordinances role of the Federal Shariat Courts etc"
X Link 2025-07-02T23:38Z 47.9K followers, 34.7K engagements
"Link: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-brings-third-world-prejudices-to-new-york-4b87c111 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-brings-third-world-prejudices-to-new-york-4b87c111"
X Link 2025-07-02T23:38Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@StatisticUrban Partial explanation:"
X Link 2025-07-11T22:14Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Criticizing the SHSAT results it is the same as Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he doesnt like the latest jobs report. You are shooting the messenger because you dont like the message." -- @dany_egorov"
X Link 2025-08-06T18:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Did Mamdani answer the question about whether it would be appropriate to boycott/divest/sanction Uganda"
X Link 2025-10-23T00:10Z 47.9K followers, 22.6K engagements
"The WSJ recently reported on a related phenomenon: the gentrification of senior migration to Florida. Quote: In [----] net migration grew 5% from a decade earlier for households with inflation-adjusted incomes of at least $125000 and headed by someone [--] or older according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of census data archived at IPUMS at the University of Minnesota. By comparison the flow of similar households with inflation-adjusted incomes of $75000 or less shrank 44%. The pattern was the same for households headed by someone aged [--] to 64: Net migration of the upper-income group grew 42%"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:20Z 47.9K followers, 83.7K engagements
"Fascinating aside @CPopeHC's latest report on potential implications of extending "temporary" APTC subsides: Medicaid expansion led to a substantial crowd-out of ESI enrollment with 56% of workers newly enrolled in the program having previously been covered by ESI"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:35Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In fairness why would you expect mayoral candidates to answer questions about looming $12.6B budget gaps when you could instead ask them about say halal cart prices Lander as @NYCComptroller like @NYSComptroller DiNapoli issued reports warning of growing budget gaps. See his remarks starting around 36:42 mark. It wasn't secret just widely ignored by media. Candidate Mamdani was never asked about it. https://t.co/roVATJrx3Z via @YouTube Lander as @NYCComptroller like @NYSComptroller DiNapoli issued reports warning of growing budget gaps. See his remarks starting around 36:42 mark. It wasn't"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:46Z 47.9K followers, 48.5K engagements
"Sobering from @EjmEj in @CityJournal: On a proportional basis New Yorks [--] percent population decline since [----] exceeded the [---] percent and [---] percent declines experienced by Illinois and California respectively. Only West Virginia and Hawaii both down [---] percent have lost a bigger share of their latest Census base. On the opposite extreme the states with the biggest population gains were Texas and Florida which have grown by about [---] million and [---] million residents respectively since [----] the Census Bureau estimates. In the latest year alone Texas added [------] and Florida added 196680"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:49Z 47.9K followers, 18.4K engagements
"El-Sayeds pivot to minimalist Medicare-for-All is shrewd. Its intuitive appealing to many which might be enough. M4A is mostly (entirely) about factional signaling. To the extent you care about the substance trouble is that it would leave the poor worse off. The idea: a public payer guarantees basic coverage for everyone but youd allow people to purchase supplementary coverage to buy their way out of long waits/rationing. Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein published an engaging well-written book sketching this out in [----]. As @CPopeHC explained however the idea has a fatal flaw. QUOTE: Einav and"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:31Z 47.9K followers, 15.2K engagements
"RT @RushDoshi: Making major concessions just to meet with the PRC is usually a mistake. Starmer wanted to show distance from the US. Tha"
X Link 2026-02-02T00:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"When Mamdani and allies talk about public education they focus on childcare as a means of providing economic relief combating racial segregation etc. but they have little to say about improving academic achievement. Why Stephen Eide tackles this and more in the latest Bigger Apple. And he adds a political warning as well. QUOTE: If the DSA wants advance out of big cities it will have to shake off the reputation of a movement comprised of unmarried childless twentysomethings whose political engagement stems from unhappiness over the personal choices theyve made. Yes families care about"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:57Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @joshrauh: This is a blatant straw-man mischaracterization of Economics. From Nobelist Mirrlees (1971) who derived an optimal top margin"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:51Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @PolicyEngineer: Gov. Lamont's $500 million rebate gimmick (cribbed from NY) is essentially a pay-day loan. Diverting the cash away from"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @judgeglock: Federal stormwater regs are little discussed but they are the number one way the federal government directly increases hou"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:05Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @ishapiro: John has been doing invaluable work in this area. Grateful that hes now a @ManhattanInst colleague"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:13Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @AaronBMacLean: Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happeni"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @alexolegimas: Ok but this slaps"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @annastansbury: The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through cl"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:54Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be"
X Link 2017-06-19T17:14Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Jonathan Meer on the Seattle minimum-wage study (in @NRO): http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449080/seattle-minimum-wage-university-washington-study-critics-wrong http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449080/seattle-minimum-wage-university-washington-study-critics-wrong"
X Link 2017-06-29T15:01Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Great piece by @DashkaSlater: http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/north-dakota-norway-prisons-experiment/ http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/north-dakota-norway-prisons-experiment/"
X Link 2017-07-26T18:04Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Good piece but treats whites as monolithic. First-gen college non-rich rural/small-metro whites underrepresented https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans"
X Link 2017-08-11T21:31Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The best "Why I'm running" statement I've ever read from a GOP candidate: https://randyboyd.com/why-im-running/ https://randyboyd.com/why-im-running/"
X Link 2017-08-21T00:30Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"I've been waiting for this piece . http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/23/american-anarchy-parallels-chinas-cultural-revolution/ http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/23/american-anarchy-parallels-chinas-cultural-revolution/"
X Link 2017-08-23T16:28Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Yuval Levin on the standing crisis: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450835/trump-and-chaos-yuval-levin http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450835/trump-and-chaos-yuval-levin"
X Link 2017-08-25T21:56Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HWkE3g0wdSE&feature=youtu.be"
X Link 2017-06-19T17:14Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"This is because of the TCJA's limit on the deduction for state and local taxes - known as the SALT cap. That change hit particularly hard for residents of NY which is one of the highest-taxed states in the U.S. https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/mamdani-gets-an-important-tax-fact-wrong/ https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/mamdani-gets-an-important-tax-fact-wrong/"
X Link 2026-02-17T21:13Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"To justify his plan for taxing the rich @NYCMayor claimed in Albany last week that NY's millionaires are reaping a $12B yearly windfall from the Trump tax cuts. IRS data say otherwise. The [----] legislation extended in [----] raised taxes for the average NY millionaire"
X Link 2026-02-17T21:10Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @fuller_brandon: Time to restore authority and accountability to boards of trustees for public university systems (and the Governors who"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:33Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Time to restore authority and accountability to boards of trustees for public university systems (and the Governors who account for the majority of their appointments). Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang argue boards need stronger oversight to ensure transparency and accountability. 🧵 https://t.co/27NDwOhElB Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Public universities are state-chartered taxpayer-funded and entrusted to educate in the publics interest. In a new MI issue brief @JohnDSailer and @tal_fortgang argue boards need stronger oversight to ensure transparency and accountability. 🧵"
X Link 2026-02-17T18:17Z 86.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@dany_egorov @NewYorker The article got another fact wrong. Former mayor DeBlasio ended the G&T test not Adams. https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2021/1/28/22253729/nyc-testing-gifted-admissions https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2021/1/28/22253729/nyc-testing-gifted-admissions"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:42Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"Another question: "But those trends have little connection to G. & T. and much more to do with the affordability crisis driving young families out of the city and with disillusionment in the citys public schools that arose from covid-era closures and remote learning." Have you seen the NYC public schools survey that shows that the #1 reason why parents left NYC DOE schools is lack of academic rigor https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022368391432909133 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022368391432909133"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I have a question for Jessica Winter writer for @NewYorker. She writes "parents in an underfunded overcrowded public system are compelled to compete against each other for scarce resources." Does she think NYC spending $42000 per child is underfunded NYC has lost 10% of its student population since [----]. Is that overcrowded Actually NYC now has a problem of tiny under enrolled schools: [--] schools had less than [---] students last year - this year the number is [---] schools. Are there any fact checkers at The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/new-york-citys-gifted-problem"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:45Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements
"RT @bhargreaves: This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:41Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"This is objectively worse than Blackstone buying that home and renting it to a young family Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes). Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes)"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:34Z 16.3K followers, 188.3K engagements
"Part of a trend in which Boomer retirees are buying up properties in towns with top schools outbidding families. (They then start agitating to de facto defund the schools by saying as poor seniors they shouldn't have to pay property taxes). Upsizing in Biloxi: We spent the last [--] years in an apartment [--] years in Chicago & now [--] years here said Mrs. Harlow [--]. And that whole time weve had what I call a one-butt kitchen where you cant walk past each other https://t.co/fsSYnzTAJE https://t.co/7ZXM2vONtv Upsizing in Biloxi: We spent the last [--] years in an apartment [--] years in Chicago & now 2"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:16Z 34.6K followers, 462.2K engagements
"We all refer to things imprecisely sometimes. https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani https://www.city-journal.org/article/free-buses-new-york-times-zohran-mamdani"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:50Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"(Useful context: "The person in question was holding a knife and was asked more than [--] times to drop it before being shot.")"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:52Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Done. I have literally written more articles (and books) about NYC transportation and transit for more news/opinion/advocacy outlets for more mayoral administrations (five) than anyone else in the NYC press corps I have an active press pass and I have consistently come to the mayor's press conferences since his inauguration including in Albany. So I'm truly curious who on this list is more qualified than me to attend a transpo/transit press conference :/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022386488659361963 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022386488659361963"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:04Z 13.8K followers, 20.4K engagements
"@DouthatNYT This is my main takeaway from the decline of the Mellon Foundation. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mellon-foundations-idea-of-social-justice-d73cebf7 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mellon-foundations-idea-of-social-justice-d73cebf7"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:50Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @PeterMoskos: I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:25Z 47.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such as assault and robbery drive away in a fancy car. Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:30Z 16.4K followers, 608.6K engagements
"Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:29Z [----] followers, 5.2M engagements
"RT @Noahpinion: Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:29Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Progressives think anarchy is a form of welfare. Actually anarchy just hurts the most vulnerable. Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in freezing weather. Mamdani ended that policy & [--] people died. Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:22Z 397.6K followers, 44K engagements
"Read this & let it sink in. [--] days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in freezing weather. Mamdani ended that policy & [--] people died. NEW: city hall has confirmed a 19th outdoor death. We were also made aware of one more additional death after an individual was found unresponsive on the street under the Manhattan Bridge last evening. #NBC4NY NEW: city hall has confirmed a 19th outdoor death. We were also made aware of one more additional death after"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:23Z [----] followers, 5M engagements
"Great new research out from @SearchlightInst on a tool that can help make child care affordable in the U.S with a simple fix let child care centers open above ground"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:20Z 10.7K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Rep. Ro Khanna showed up at the anti-ICE protest outside the Super Bowl organized and led by revolutionary groups. Youd think hed at least notice FRSO on the signs and ask Who are these people If he did hed find a Maoist organization whose circle was investigated by the Obama-era FBI including the [----] raids tied to a material support probe. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666133146202185 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666133146202185"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:08Z 40.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"RT @annastansbury: The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through cl"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:54Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade -- increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, 15.2K engagements
"One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps. https://t.co/o1jikg4Rbv I will be enthusiastically"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:09Z 20.3K followers, 25.9K engagements
"RT @alexolegimas: Ok but this slaps"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:06Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Ok but this slaps [----] Soviet New Wave. https://t.co/nu9vrqf17T [----] Soviet New Wave. https://t.co/nu9vrqf17T"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:04Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements
"1985 Soviet New Wave"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:08Z 451.7K followers, 370K engagements
"NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like: https://t.co/m3CONAPo7u NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like: https://t.co/m3CONAPo7u"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:47Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements
"NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since [----] we have built [--]. Not [--] per year [--] total over [--] years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:59Z 103.4K followers, 149.3K engagements
"This is important and very relevant for NYC under Zohran. You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:26Z 47.9K followers, [----] engagements
"You have to wonder about the political economy of places like Montgomery County where rent control high abatements public funds mean most new development adds little property tax revenue If new housing costs taxpayers that boosts anti-housing attitudes This is the Jawando-Elrich economy in a nutshell: rent control means the only way new housing pencils is w/ sig gov subsidy w/ the bill footed by the taxpayer & bc subsidies are often in the form of abatements etc they raise taxes to fund what unsubsidized projects would have https://t.co/8bxG8BaUIl This is the Jawando-Elrich economy in a"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:15Z 43.8K followers, 22.6K engagements
"RT @AaronBMacLean: Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happeni"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:27Z 47.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Is the American right isolationist Yes Is it interventionist Also yes The answer always depends on what is happening in the world how voters perceive that as affecting their own security and well-being and what the leaders they support say. My latest in @TheFP. MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://t.co/LtE3ODzWBU MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://t.co/LtE3ODzWBU"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:16Z [----] followers, 11K engagements
"MAGA ideologues want a consistent noninterventionist policy. Voters dont writes Aaron MacLean. That's why Trump voters will back an Iran strike. https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-voters-will-back-an-iran-striketaid=6984f1369c5d9c0001fd745e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-voters-will-back-an-iran-striketaid=6984f1369c5d9c0001fd745e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:36Z 644.2K followers, 16.2K engagements
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