Kathy Hochul’s AI Ban Is a Gift to China
The defining geopolitical competition of the 21st century will not be fought primarily with aircraft carriers, tanks, or nuclear weapons. It will be fought with artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electricity, and data centers. The nation that leads AI will shape the global economy, military capability, scientific discovery, productivity, and technological innovation for decades to come. This […]
The Quiet Government Takeover of American Healthcare
Americans believe in helping the vulnerable. Medicaid and Medicare were created to ensure seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families receive the care they need. Those programs are absolutely worth protecting. But what should concern every taxpayer is the steady expansion of government control over healthcare through incremental policies that move America toward a government-dominated […]
Is the DSA America’s Enemy of the State?
How the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) grew from a fringe club into a 100,000-member force. And why its own platform, its foreign ties, and a murder in Washington have made it a target of federal scrutiny For most of its history, the Democratic Socialists of America was an afterthought—a few thousand aging leftists meeting […]
Albany Has Been Running Up a Credit Card in Your Name, and It’s Almost Maxed Out
Every family knows two things about a credit card. Having one is useful. When the roof goes or the car dies, being able to borrow is the difference between a problem and a disaster. But the card only works if you don’t max it out. Once you’re carrying a balance you can’t pay down, it […]
New York Is Sleepwalking Into a Fiscal Crisis
Albany just passed a $268.5 billion budget, up $14.5 billion in a single year. By 2030 the state faces a $12.5 billion annual deficit. Behind the press releases celebrating “historic” school aid and “record” investments lies a structural hole that the Citizens Budget Commission estimates at $20 billion once you strip out the temporary fixes […]
New Yorkers Deserve Higher Wages, But Mandates Alone Will Not Deliver Them
New Yorkers are right to be frustrated with the rising cost of living. Rent, groceries, transportation, and childcare have all surged in recent years. A family trying to make ends meet in New York City or across the state faces pressures that were unimaginable just a decade ago. For many workers, especially those in service […]
Hochul Is Trying to Silence New York’s Constitutional Watchdog
New York’s Constitution created the Office of the State Comptroller for a simple reason: taxpayers deserve an independent watchdog over government spending. The Comptroller was deliberately designed to be independent of the governor and the executive branch. The office exists to ensure that the same officials who spend taxpayer money are not the only ones […]
Mayor Mamdani’s Socialist Agenda Opens the Door to Fraud
New Yorkers are once again reading headlines about billions of dollars lost to fraud. Not in some distant state, but here at home. A recent report revealed that New York’s Medicaid Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program alone lost more than $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds. These stories no longer shock the public. They’re used to […]
Silence Is Complicity: How New York’s Comptroller Would Let Anti-Israel Activists Hijack New York’s Future
New York’s $291 billion public pension fund exists for one reason: to provide secure retirement benefits for police officers, firefighters, and public workers who devoted their careers to this state, and it must not be used to advance radical ideological agendas. That is why a recent proposal by Democratic Comptroller candidate Raj Goyle to divest […]
New York’s Rising Debt and the MTA Problem We Pretend Is Separate
New York State’s debt trajectory is becoming one of the most significant risks to its long-term fiscal stability, yet it is rarely discussed in plain terms. The danger is not only the amount of debt being carried today, but the combined weight of State debt and Metropolitan Transportation Authority debt, how quickly both are growing, […]