Brandon Fuller

Thorough @nicolegelinas dissection of Mamdani's pitch for city-run grocery stores: "Before casually proposing to disrupt a complex system, it’s a good idea to know how that thing works." nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…

.@ZephyrTeachout insists that America’s food system “is rigged in favor of big retailers and suppliers in several ways” that drive up prices for consumers. @judgeglock explains why her argument is incoherent:

Responding to the @ZephyrTeachout NYT piece, @judgeglock explains @CityJournal why all New Yorkers should be wary of @ZohranKMamdani's public grocery store plan.

At the @ManhattanInst, we’re always glad to work with leaders from across the spectrum—which is why we welcomed Brad Lander to our office during his mayoral campaign to talk policy, and were pleased to hear him cite our ideas positively from the debate stage just last month.

Serial shoplifting criminal goes into a drug store, threatens to kill, attacks workers steals, and a worker fights him. Criminal dies. Why are we prosecuting the worker? It's as if DA Bragg must prosecute the worker to distract from his own failure to prosecute the criminals.

From 2015–24, New York City invested an estimated $97 million in a new disciplinary policy. Schools replaced traditional methods—detention, suspensions, removals—with a policy called Restorative Justice. NYC’s new model spread across districts nationwide. But did it work?

“America has a critical mass of people whose expectations of intergenerational progress have gone sour. Billionaire-bashing political entrepreneurs like Mamdani have figured out how to scratch that psychopolitical itch.” From @ManhattanInst President @reihan’s incisive essay @WSJ

Zohran Mamdani’s rise is fueled by downwardly mobile urban millennials who feel failed by the system and want to tear it down. But their politics may be too radical to win over the growing, suburban middle class Democrats need in other parts of the country.

An accredited girls' residential program in Arizona was highly praised by parents and participants alike. But in June, a state agency abruptly shut the program down, pressured by misrepresentative activist media attention. Resident care was derailed and families left scrambling.

When Wisconsin adopted merit pay, school districts attracted more high quality teachers Meanwhile, low-quality teachers left those districts or Wisconsin public schools altogether

Re-Creation Retreat, a therapeutic program for teen girls in Arizona, was shut down last month. Families say the state acted on thin evidence and responded to pressure from activists and unverified complaints—upending fragile lives in the process.

Rural hospitals receive only 1.3% of Medicaid spending and were largely exempt from cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But thanks to a new $50 billion grant program, these facilities might almost double their annual Medicaid revenues. city-journal.org/article/rural-…

Families in Florida will soon have more options to secure a good education for their children, thanks to a new state law expanding Schools of Hope, a program that seeks to attract high-performing charter schools to districts with low-performing schools.

Of Note: Why men and women are diverging ideologically, even as they become more alike economically and educationally. city-journal.org/article/men-wo… @robkhenderson

Albany recently passed a bill to ban one-person train operation (OPTO), blocking the @MTA from even testing a cost-saving idea used safely in cities like London and Tokyo—and already in use on some MTA shuttle trains. My latest in @CityJournal shows how this move puts union…

Some personal news: Time to get married, have some Jewish babies, and raise them to love America.

What does Big Jason Riley of the @ManhattanInst and @WSJ have to say about US race relations, his well-known biography of Thomas Sowell, and the future of affirmative action after Fair Admissions? Watch and see! youtube.com/watch?v=8GCdi4….