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Here Are the Cities Making AI Easier—and Harder
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Artificial intelligence may be one of the most important productivity-enhancing technologies of the coming decades. That promise extends to city hall. AI could give municipal governments more administrative ca...
Why Socialists Want to Shut Down Prisons
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By Barry Latzer
This piece first appeared on our main website, city-journal.org.
Victories by several Democratic Socialists of America-affiliated candidates have revived attention for proposals to...
Yes, Freezing the Rent is Still Bad Economics
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After last month’s rent freeze in New York City, many of the policy’s far-left supporters seized on a paper by economist J.W. Mason of John Jay College and the City University of New York. Mason’s basic ar...
Two Cheers for Mamdani’s Bus Plan
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Faster buses may finally be coming to New York City. Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled a plan to increase bus speeds by 20 percent along 50 priority corridors. T...
The Spectacular Rise and Gruesome Implosion of ‘Woke Capital’
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Major corporations were long seen as natural allies of the tax-cutting American Right. But that changed with the rise of “woke capital,” especially in 2020, when big companies fell over e...
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The Manhattan Institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.
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Director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Defender of free speech & intellectual diversity. Author of Supreme Disorder, Lawless, and the Shapiro's Gavel newsletter. I write about law, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.
Associate Professor of Finance, NYUStern
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has” Priya co-founded Fractal, a neighborhood of friends in Brooklyn, and Fractal University, a community college.
Conservative economist and public speaker. From Venezuela. Fellow at the Manhattan Institute focused on immigration policy. Board of advisors member at Young America’s Foundation. Views are mine.
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Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Senior Editor of City Journal. Opinions here are my own.
Dad of 3, Manhattan Institute Fellow, Institute for Family Studies Research Fellow, NRO Contributing Editor, CenterClip Contributor. Guitar player and metalhead. Opinions my own.
Adam Lehodey is an investigative reporter covering New York politics, economics and cultural issues. Beyond those topics, he publishes diverse essays on philosophy, urbanism and travel on his site: adamlehodey.com
Writer at the Manhattan Institute.
Editor, The Civic.
C. Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow for the Manhattan Institute.
Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he writes on economic, energy, and environmental issues.
Senior Fellow & Director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute
Husband, dad, and longtime think tank guy. Thinking, writing, and talking mostly (but not exclusively) about crime, policing, and criminal justice. Lawyer by training. Right-of-center. Brooklyn boy turned suburbanite.
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