Charles Lehman

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Tal Fortgang |Rafael A. Mangual |Carolyn D. Gorman

City Journal contributors Charles Fain Lehman, Tal Fortgang, Rafael Mangual, and Carolyn Gorman break down results from a new Manhattan Institute poll on New York City’s mayoral race. They also unpack the Israel–Iran conflict and the strange state of modern wedding culture. Audio TranscriptCharles Fain Lehman: The two top issues, collectively covering 51 percent of the electorate in the poll, were crime and public safety, so 26 percent, and housing costs, which is at 25 percent.

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman

Very early Saturday morning, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and state senator John Hoffman—both members of the state’s Democratic party affiliate—were shot, along with their spouses, by a man posing as a police officer. Hortman and her husband Mark died; Hoffman and his wife Yvette, though both shot multiple times, have survived. After a two-day manhunt, police captured the alleged killer, Vance Boelter, who now faces murder charges.

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Ilya Shapiro |Renu Mukherjee |Daniel Di Martino

Charles Fain Lehman, Ilya Shapiro, Renu Mukherjee, and Daniel Di Martino discuss the attack on two Minneapolis state lawmakers, the rallies against Trump, the military parade in D.C., and the New York City mayoral race. Daniel Di Martino: No, you know, my problem is that I do think Mamdani is a Marxist who is extremely dangerous, who hates America, who hates the West, who hates the Constitution.

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman

The summer of 2025 has not yet officially begun, but it already looks like another long, hot one. Los Angeles has faced days of anti-ICE protests and rioting, which have spread to dozens of other cities, provoking clashes with local, state, and federal law enforcement. The burning cars and mask-clad demonstrators are disturbingly reminiscent of the riots for “racial justice” in the summer of 2020 and for “Palestine” in 2024. The cause changes; the personnel and methods remain the same.

2 weeks ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Jesse Arm |Neetu Chandak |Carolyn D. Gorman

Charles Fain Lehman, Jesse Arm, Neetu Arnold, and Carolyn Gorman discuss Elon Musk and fiscal conservatism in the GOP, the anti-ICE riots spreading across the U.S., and favorite rockstars. Charles Fain Lehman: What’s sort of funny about Musk is like by the end of this, he sort of speed-ran the like fiscal conservative experience. He was like, we’re going to come in and cut all the waste fraud abuse. By the end he was like, no, the problem really is entitlements. Like that’s actually the issue.