The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich.
Whitney Curry Wimbish
Whitney Curry Wimbish is a staff writer at The American Prospect. She previously worked in the Financial Times newsletters division, The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and the Herald News in New Jersey. Her work has been published in multiple outlets, including The New York Times, The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Music & Literature, North American Review, Sentient, Semafor, and elsewhere. She is a coauthor of The Majority Report’s daily newsletter and publishes short fiction in a range of literary magazines.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
GOP Food Stamp Work Requirements Hit Just as Jobs Dry Up
Millions of people will lose food stamps, according to early estimates.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Aftermath: Plastics Clogged in the Persian Gulf
In today’s inaugural newsletter: plastic supply chains, sulfuric acid export bans, and the war drags on.
Posted inPolitics
Getting New York City to Believe in Government
Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Live Tax-Free and Die
After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
GOP War on Health Care Destroying Hospitals at Home and Abroad
More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When Consumer Protection Stops, Scammers Run Amok
Hundreds of consumers have complained to the CFPB about a credit card for rental payments called Bilt. But the agency has been prohibited from responding.
Posted inLaw and Justice
ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests
Agents never had permission to hunt immigrants at court appointments, says the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
H.R. 7640 would require state and local police departments to help federal agents carry out their mass deportation drive. Democrats used a states’ rights argument to say why that’s bogus.
Posted inWorking in America
NYU Professors Vote to Strike After Bosses Stonewall for Months
The decision by Contract Faculty United at New York University comes as more workers walked off the job in 2025 to win higher pay, stronger benefits, and other gains.