MAMDANI’S ALL-MALE SHELTERS, ALL-FEMALE SURPRISES

New York City’s newest civic magician, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, celebrated his first 100 days by standing next to Bernie Sanders and announcing that government intervention has already solved, or at least very confidently approached, the sorts of problems that usually require money, time, and a PowerPoint. He touted $1.2 billion for universal childcare, five publicly owned grocery stores in the pipeline, lawsuits for landlords, and more spending on sanitation and infrastructure, which is exactly the kind of sweeping achievement that sounds best when read in a triumphant tone and worst when someone else gets the bill. Then, in a touch of premium-grade political theater, he dusted off Margaret Thatcher’s old warning about socialists running out of other people’s money just long enough to argue that, actually, socialism may be what you need to clean up the mess, a sentence so perfectly modern it could have been focus-grouped by a taxpayer-funded irony machine. Meanwhile, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is out there talking about backlash to all-male homeless shelters, because in New York even the solutions arrive