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New York City Is Mamdani’s Economic Fantasy Land

It will take a sustained effort for New York’s progressive, now socialist left, to rethink the errors of their ways before they learn the hard way.

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How to Shorten SCOTUS Oral Argument

Why not give the Justices an allotment of “extra” time to spend as they will across the term?

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