“Freeze the Rent! Melt the ICE!”
Manhattan tenants testify for rent freeze on one and two-year leases.
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Parents, Teachers Push Pause on AI Rollout in Schools
The demand for a moratorium gained more traction as the city’s Dept. of Education’s released its guidance on the use of AI in March, followed by a 45-day feedback period that has since ended.
Western New York Resists Mega-Data Center Plan
As state legislators in Albany are pushing to pass a moratorium on new data centers, a coalition of Western…
How Revolutionary Politics Make Art and Spirituality, Better
What if I told you, there’s a dynamic combination of art, politics and spirituality? One that fits our needs. One that fits this moment. It is Mass Line politics and American Romanticism.
When the Victim Becomes the Survivor
Sexual violence so extreme it confounds imagination is the subject of two of the best-selling books on the planet. Women are hungry for such stories, perhaps, because there is hardly a woman alive who does not think: “That could have been me.” Or, “That might have been my daughter.”
The Bronx is Still Burning for a Rent Freeze
Bronx tenants testify to the Rent Hearings Board, demanding rent freezes on one and two-year leases.
Overseers Everywhere—Still We Rise
In his new book, “The Overseer Class” Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the skulls of their own.”
Questions Remain About How Mamdani’s COGE Chief Makes His Money
Veteran Democratic Party operative Patrick Gaspard will lead the mayor’s Commission on Government Efficiency, which will conduct a top to bottom review of city spending and who benefits. The potential for influence peddling is real if potential conflicts of interest are not made clear from the beginning.
We Don’t Have a Child Care Fraud Problem—We Have a Care Economy Problem
The United States is asking the wrong question about child care. In recent months, headlines and political rhetoric have focused…