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Amazon’s chief lobbyist fighting a delivery worker protection bill in New York City recently endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani is Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), according to public lobbying records and three sources with knowledge of the situation.

The bill, the Delivery Protection Act, would establish safety...


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Of all New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promises, his plan for government-subsidized grocery stores has resulted in the strongest, and sometimes strangest, ire. Critics have called it bad policy, bad business, and even the tipping point on our slide toward Venezuelan socialist oblivion, oh no!

Today on the show, we have one of the people who consulted with ...


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The wordless show of dissent that cost Dr. Feras Hamdan his job, a $50,000 cash surety bond, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and the better part of his sanity lasted all of 24 seconds.

It was June 19, 2025, the seventh day of the so-called “Twelve-Day War” between Israel and Iran and the first day of summer vacation, so traffic was spar...


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Last week, I reported that Seth Moulton, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey for the Massachusetts Democratic Senate nomination, was given a sweetheart opportunity to buy into three lucrative defense-related stocks not a...


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Congress is scheduled for about three more weeks of work between now and the midterm elections, none of it before mid-September. Early Saturday morning, the Senate wrapped up its work for the summer, leaving a large to-do list for that brief pre-election period, when traditionally parties in power don’t want to vote on anything controversial if they can help it....


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