Mamdani promised to tax the 1%. Then 960,000 people ended up on the list

New York estimated 10,000 luxury second homes in May. By July, the roll had passed 30,000 — and the file it published was wider still. Kulak was not an insult. It was a definition. It had criteria — acreage, livestock, whether you hired hands — and clerks with forms to administer them. When the definition […]