Tenants in regulated units already enjoy the protection of regular low-level annual price increases. Imperiling what’s already working for them — if imperfectly — to score a few populist points makes no sense, and it doesn’t help market-rate tenants who don’t enjoy such rent protections and who are subsidizing rent-regulated units in mixed buildings and property portfolios. If Mr. Mamdani is unwilling to pursue useful reforms, he should heed a basic governance principle: Do not make things worse.

 

Why Are Many New York Apartments Empty? Rent Laws.

By Nicole Gelinas

Ms. Gelinas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for City Journal.

In the end, California’s gasoline detours through the Bahamas are not an oddity or a temporary market quirk. They are a revealing stress test of the Jones Act itself. When a law designed to promote domestic shipping ends up making it cheaper to source fuel from across oceans than from within the same country, it is difficult to argue that it serves its stated purposes. If policymakers are serious about affordability, resilience, and energy security, the lesson from California is clear: a shipping law that forces American fuel to leave the country to move within it is overdue for fundamental reform, if not outright repeal.

 

When US Gasoline Has to Leave the Country to Move Within It

Cato at Liberty

February 17, 2026 

What many universities do offer (even more so now than when the N.A.S. issued its report) is what amounts to an education in anti-Western civ: the examination of all the ways in which Western civilization is, purportedly, an extended act of imperialism and colonialism, human exploitation and environmental despoliation, misogyny and white supremacy and phobias of every kind.

 

Western Civ Can Save Us — Again

By Bret Stephens

Opinion Columnist

Ms. McCuaig-Johnston said the new defense strategy was overdue. “Canada has not invested adequately in our defense industries, as we perceived ourselves to be protected by our U.S. neighbor,” she said. “That has clearly changed.”

 

Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

By Ian Austen

Reporting from Ottawa

Trashing the EPA's car emissions standards is not a bad thing.

 

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

By Hiroko Tabuchi

As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it’s most needed.

Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

By Emily Galvin Almanza

Ms. Almanza is the executive director of Partners for Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public defense.

Carney is putting Canada above the U.S by making it apparent Trump is a blustering moron trashing our future

 

Canada’s Financial Market SHOCKS the World — USA HUMILIATED!