May 3, 2023
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as city council homelessness chair, raman greenlit hundreds of millions of dollars for programs she *knew* had issues, failed to catch rampant waste, and watched homelessness rise
new york’s bungled rollout of mamdani marts and the pied-á-terre tax show that the mayor’s promises might require more than just vibes to implement
brad gerstner tells us how he architected 'trump accounts,' cracked washington's bureaucracy, and got americans invested in this country again