Fortune Favors the Bold: Which One of These Pols Might Challenge Adams in 2025?
Progressives must field a strong candidate in the 2025 mayor’s race. We look at seven intriguing contenders for that role.
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Is Eric Adams Playing Black Voters?
NYC’s new mayor tapped into the highly charged dream of a strong Black father figure. The reality of governing, however, is turning out to be messier than the dream and may require an intervention by some of his most ardent supporters.
Jaywalking Charge Leaves Bronx Resident on the Brink of Deportation
Former DACA recipient Javier Castillo Maradiaga has lived in the U.S. since he was 7. Three times in the past week it appeared ICE would deport him. His family and lawyers still aren’t sure he is out of danger.
QAnon Recycles Anti-Semitic Imagery to Sell Hatred
This sprawling conspiracy theory rolls through America like a monstrous sticky ball, growing exponentially by pulling in the detritus of other conspiracy theories.
The charismatic congresswoman could be the transformative leader her hometown needs in a moment of crisis. In the process, she could strengthen her case for a future presidential run.
AOC: ‘It’s Not Just What We’re Fighting For, But How We’re Fighting For It’
We spoke with the freshman congresswoman while she campaigned in Queens and the Bronx this week about Black Lives Matter, the way power works in Washington and what she hopes the country will look like when she is the same age as her mentor, Bernie Sanders.
Primary Primer: A Voter’s Guide to Some of the Most Hotly Contested Races on the NY Ballot
New York is a one-party city where elections are almost always determined in the Democratic primary. Until 2018 these…
Domino Effect: Can Millennial Leftists Topple More Machine Incumbents in NY’s June 23 Primaries?
A crowd of purple-clad supporters had gathered around an overhead television set at one end of a bar in…
State Senate Win Within Reach For Brooklyn Socialist Jabari Brisport
“We have to keep dreaming big,” says the DSA-backed public school teacher who would be the first out LGBTQ person of color elected to NY State Senate.
Can Bernie Sanders Make the Democratic Party a Democratic Party?
The Democratic Party has been a perennial subject of hope, betrayal and befuddlement for so many on the left,…