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1 week ago | 
city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Jesse Arm |John M. Ketcham |Robert Henderson
Charles Fain Lehman, Jesse Arm, John Ketcham, and Rob Henderson discuss New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s latest proposal, an HHS review of medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria, and why taking advice from younger generations is never a good idea. Charles Fain Lehman: Welcome back to the City Journal Podcast. I’m your host, Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.
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2 weeks ago | 
city-journal.org | Rafael A. Mangual |Jesse Arm |Tal Fortgang |John M. Ketcham
Rafael Mangual, Jesse Arm, Tal Fortgang, and John Ketcham discuss the FBI’s arrest of a Wisconsin judge, the Jewish students who were blocked from areas of Yale University’s campus, and the other topics they’re following right now. Rafael Mangual: Hey, good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the new episode of the City Journal Podcast. My name is Rafael Mangual. I’m the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and of course a contributing editor of City Journal.
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1 month ago | 
nypost.com | Jordan McGillis |John M. Ketcham
An overhead utility line in the Bronx, NY. Christopher Sadowski New Yorkers are getting burned by Democrats’ green delusions.
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1 month ago | 
manhattan.institute | Jordan McGillis |John M. Ketcham
New Yorkers are getting burned by Democrats’ green delusions. The average monthly ConEd bill today is $154 higher than five years ago, despite a near tripling of US wind and solar capacity since 2017, which advocates promised would bring prices down. Now, ConEd wants the state utilities regulator to allow another rate hike — 11% for power and 13% for gas — just so it can keep pace with the state’s green energy targets. Former Gov.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham |Jesse Arm
Portland, Oregon, and might not have much in common. But both have taken a crucial step to protect students: banning smartphone use in public schools. After more than a decade of distracted learning, increased bullying, declining academic performance, and mental-health challenges wrought by social media, the effects of smartphones on American children have become impossible to ignore.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham
Last Friday, in one of his parting shots, then-President Joe Biden abruptly proclaimed that the Constitution now has 28 amendments, thanks to the supposed ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures of the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment. For several procedural and substantive reasons, Biden’s attempt to conjure a 28th Amendment will prove futile. In 1972, Congress passed a joint resolution proposing the ERA to the states.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a case whose outcome will determine how states can constitutionally protect children from sexually explicit material online. At issue is Texas’s House Bill 1181, which requires websites composed of more than one-third of “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify users’ ages before allowing access to their sites. Similar statutes in 18 other states will stand or fall on the decision.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham
In New York, no past commercial activity is ever safe from political risk. Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham
/ From the Magazine / States and Cities, Economy, finance, and budgets On a humid Sunday night in July, waiters in black vests and white shirts whipped around the counter, balancing pancakes and onion rings. It was the final day for the Neptune Diner in Astoria, Queens. Over the past week, patrons from across the region came to say good-bye over one last cup of Greek lemon chicken soup or a turkey triple-decker.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | John M. Ketcham
On December 10, the Alaska Division of Elections confirmed, following a vote recount, that the effort to repeal Final Four Voting (F4V) failed by a mere 743 votes, out of 341,000 cast. The result secures Alaska’s position as a rare victory for electoral reformers this year, in contrast with setbacks elsewhere: five states rejected ranked-choice voting (RCV) ballot measures, while Missouri approved a constitutional amendment banning it.
