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Nicole Gelinas

Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist at the New York Post. She tweets at @nicolegelinas.

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NO PADDLE

DeSantis’ Disney War Is What the Right Accuses Dems of Doing

Florida’s scorched-earth revenge on Disney is taking taxpayers and municipal-bond investors hostage.

Nicole Gelinas

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Red States Sink Themselves if They Let Blue States Go Down

Republicans may not want to bail out blue states, but they can’t afford to let them go under.

Nicole Gelinas

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No Fair

Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Bigly Biased Against Cities

You’d think the president was from rural Nebraska the way this plan is tilted in favor of rural America. High-speed rail, new Hudson River tunnel? Fuggedaboutit

Nicole Gelinas

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‘Almost Inevitable’

Why It Took $4.5B to Add 3 Subway Stops

The Second Avenue line looked like a sure thing—in 1929. In 2017, the first short leg of it will finally appear. Here’s what (mostly didn’t) happen in all that time.

Nicole Gelinas

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FACE THE MUSIC

Trump Saw the Crisis the Others Didn’t

The Great Recession changed everything, and the leading figures in both parties failed to grasp how deeply. And so we got what we’ve got.

Nicole Gelinas

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