NY Times editorial board: Mamdani doesn’t deserve spot on New Yorkers’ ballots

Zohran Mamdani responds to NYT not endorsing candidate

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins talks with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani about the New York Times editorial board’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the race.

Bad Arguments Against Free Buses

In his campaign for the mayorship of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has proposed replacing fares for the city’s buses with taxes. The reaction to this proposal has been really bizarre and mostly based on a mistaken understanding of how to think about government revenue. Annie Lowrey neatly summarizes the conventional wisdom in her recent piece at The Atlantic where she describes the proposal as “impractical” and elaborates that “Free buses would …

New York Times panelist sizes up mayoral candidates

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The N.Y. Times tries to take down Zohran Mamdani

(New York, NY) — The New York City Democratic primary for mayor is a week from today. The New York Times gave a soft endorsement to Brad Lander on Monday, and then told readers not to vote for Assemblyman Zoran Mamdani. The board wrote  “We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots. His experience is too thin and his agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying mayoralty,” The New York Times…

The New York Times Is Wrong on Zohran Mamdani

There is so much off base in yesterday’s New York Times editorial on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo. Let us count the ways. Zohran Mamdani during a mayoral Democratic primary debate in New York, on June 4, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura / AP Photo / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Few would have predicted a year ago that a week out from New York City’s Democratic primary, a thirty-three-year-old democ…

Why I’m rooting for the lunatic over the creep in NYC

Although I would do so reluctantly — while holding a barf bag in one hand — if forced to vote in the next New York City mayoral election, I’d cast my ballot for Zohran Mamdani.Yes, that Zohran Mamdani.It isn’t just the Democratic Party destroying these cities — it’s the people who keep voting for them. Let them live with the consequences.A dire warning about this unappetizing candidate, a “Muslim lefty from the other side of Queens,” just appear…