Ron T. Kim

Seven years after Amazon pulled out of Queens for its HQ2, anti-Amazon organizer Zohran Mamdani is mayor and AOC is fundraising off of being right about it - since the project that went to Virginia instead has been disappointing.

Beautiful day to fill the 100,000th pothole of the year.

Practically everything he found was price-gouging from contractors or outsourcing. The mindbending part of DOGE was that it was going to increase public spending by cutting public staff. Building state capacity saves money.

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

7/ That redistribution dynamic — from labour to capital, from the many to the few — is the political economy of sellers' inflation. Real wages in the UK and Germany only just returned to pre-energy crisis levels. Now we risk going through it all again, and worse.

We’ve shown hospice and durable medical equipment fraud, but Queens, NY, has nurtured an entirely different scandal with social adult daycare centers that trick seniors into getting care that they don’t need. Beware.

Want to know why Congress is doing nothing on AI? AI oligarchs have already spent over $185 million buying politicians this year. There it is. It’s no more complicated than that.

We’re suing Instant Recovery, a Bronx towing company that has been breaking the law and scamming New Yorkers with illegal junk fees, overcharges, and cash-only demands. No more taking advantage of New Yorkers stranded on the side of the road.