“He was intelligent, forceful, courageous, decent, everything, in fact, but wise.” www.ft.com/content/5b59...

The Sahel region — stretching from Mauritania through Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to Chad — has become the world’s biggest epicenter for global terrorism. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

New building openings are bringing rents down as wealthy tenants trade up, forcing landlords to drop prices for older apartments. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you want a clear example of the abundance agenda with actual results, look no further than New Rochelle. www.businessinsider.com/suburban-may...

The reflexive explanation for NYC’s housing crisis is the greed of developers, financiers and foreign investors. It’s an emotionally satisfying story, but it’s wrong and it obscures a simpler truth. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I wonder why… nypost.com/2025/12/10/r...

“When we treat immigrants as future citizens rather than permanent outsiders—while credibly enforcing our border rules—we build safer communities, stronger labor markets and a country confident enough to turn newcomers into contributors.” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Exactly right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...

Red includes investors in technology stocks, big tech companies, the luxury sectors, high-income professionals, and asset owners. Blue includes small businesses, low-wage service workers, small businesses, and many middle-class and lower-income households. Not good.

It would be great if the MTA wasn’t the only organization telling riders to pay their fare. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...

“When pledges turn out to be empty words, liberal democracy and the Democratic party that stands for it will be further tarnished.” - @dacemoglumit.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/96aa...

“These are the people that did everything for a taste of freedom. They had children die on their way here. They’re mostly Catholic, they are so into their families. They love America more than most Americans.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

They are not dumb people, and they’re not crazy in the sense that they’re out of touch with reality. Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

Interesting piece by @betsyplum.bsky.social from @ridersalliance.org. Don't agree with everything, but this is a no-brainer: Fair Fares should automatically enroll eligible residents earning up to 150% of the poverty level, fully covering their transit costs. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

“That’s what the gods do, they spin thread of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.” - Cloud Cuckoo Land Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.

A direct correlation to the rise of authoritarianism and illiberalism across the globe. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter. We should not co-opt their suffering for our own agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

The sad truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that the most honest depiction would be uncomfortable. That confrontation with reality is what we need to prevent the past from turning into our future. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

“Savvy investors know that a mayor only has so much power and is term-limited. If Mamdani scares some investors away, others will see an opportunity. The market will decide.” therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

"Despite all the handwringing about democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and his perceived negative impact on the real estate market, 24 of the 41 contracts were signed in the days after Mamdani’s victory.” www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

“You have whitewashed your hands, soothed your conscience, and may now look in the mirror with the impression that you have done something. Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

Key line and the biggest open question: “If Mamdani becomes mayor and can’t or won’t defy the interest groups that oppose housing reform, housing won’t get built.” www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

“The problem is that, sooner or later, in one form or another, everyone ends up paying.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“The biggest danger may be that the city’s success makes it complacent about its flaws and challenges.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is the best. Sports and food are the biggest unifiers.

Climate doomerism helps sell movies and generate clicks, but it doesn’t help people, which really isn’t the goal of climate doomers in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

This is awful and heartbreaking. Fascist, religious extremists are about to take over Mali. www.ft.com/content/36fa...

Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

From the same paper, on the same day. Something tells me that it’s not about “universal human rights.”

Do not stand on the left side of the escalator.

“Non-wealthy New Yorkers, though, would be a captive audience for Mamdani’s anticipated bold experiments in governance.” - ⁦‪Nicole Gilenas with incontrovertible facts. www.city-journal.org/article/zohr...

In sum, “free buses” costs more than what’s been touted and wouldn’t actually make buses faster, but it sounds good on the campaign trail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The first American killed in a hate crime after 9/11 was a Sikh man named Balbir Singh Sodhi. He was shot by a man who thought he was Muslim as a retaliation for the attacks. A real leader of NYC should know the consequences of such lame, stupid rhetoric. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...

If you help sustain the civic and cultural life that first drew you in and act like a neighbor rather than an investor, then buying the home you once dreamed of isn’t just defensible; it may even soften, in some modest way, the forces you’re worried about. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

32% to 37% of the online activity criticizing Cracker Barrel in the days after its logo announcement was fueled by fake accounts, with at least two groups of bots driving much of the outrage. www.wsj.com/business/the...

“The next democratic revival will not come from clever managers or technocratic reforms. It will come from a rediscovery of trust — the invisible rule that makes all others possible.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

…. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

“One millionaire venture capitalist said that up until Mamdani’s decisive primary win, she had been oblivious to the extent of anger among the city’s youth.” *sigh* www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

“Every parade has a right to exist.”

“911 is a joke by public enemy” was something I was not expecting to hear at this debate! They only come and they come when they wanna So get the morgue truck and embalm the goner

he didn’t actually say what he was apologizing for…

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“Political fragmentation is the result of dissatisfaction with the way democracies have been governing…delivering effective governance is among the most urgent challenges facing democracies across the West.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Best piece I've read on the fiscal and political realities that await a Mayor Mamdani. Also included is a great use of the word "shibboleth." By @nicolegelinas.bsky.social www.city-journal.org/article/new-...

Streamline the approval process, offer the right incentives, remove uncertainty = more housing. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Power four football is more or less a semi-pro league and should probably be treated as such. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

“I have no clue what anyone else said (I suspect there were a lot of wheels and buses, maybe some repeated vowels and farm animals), but my kid chose ‘Ring of Fire.’ I’ve rarely been prouder.” Great piece by @jonfasman.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

By lowering accountability, rigor and standards, it produces more inequality. Spot-on piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

“That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion middleweight boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.” Good piece by @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...