When Governor Kathy Hochul asked New Yorkers to voluntarily reduce their energy use during a July heat wave, the Republican National Committee called her a communist. The charge was not just wrong — it was a deliberate distortion of a…
A System That Rewards Attendance Over Achievement More than 40% of New York City public school students in grades 3 through 8 failed state standardized tests in math and English this year — yet the city held back just 0.4%…
The central question raised by this week’s New York campaign finance filings is not whether money flows toward power — it does, reliably and predictably — but whether that flow has become so normalized that it no longer registers as…
On a Wednesday afternoon inside a gymnasium on Rikers Island, more than a hundred men in tan uniforms watched Argentina defeat England in a World Cup semifinal, eating salmon and penne alla vodka off catered plates, cheering and groaning in…
New Jersey’s Democratic-led state government refused to participate in President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, joining a broad coalition of mostly Democratic states in declining to send an official exhibit to the Freedom 250 event on the National Mall…
The Republic Is Sick. The Diagnosis Is Contested. The Stakes Could Not Be Higher. Two hundred and fifty years in, the United States is celebrating its birthday — but the party feels forced. Beneath the fireworks and the flags, a…
More than two decades after its announcement generated enormous fanfare — starchitect Frank Gehry sketching towers, Jay-Z lending his Brooklyn credibility, and Governor-era officials promising a transformative affordable housing future — Atlantic Yards remains unfinished. On Monday, New York State…
NYC Mayor’s Endorsed Candidates Win All Three Competitive House Primaries, Signaling Leftward Shift in Democratic Politics New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored a sweeping political victory Tuesday night as all three of his endorsed congressional candidates defeated establishment-backed opponents…
House Democrats Demand Answers on Trump Administration’s Reported Plot to Suspend Habeas Corpus House Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a formal letter Wednesday to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, demanding documentation related to internal…
Kennedy Dismisses Times Investigation as ‘Inaccurate’ While Refusing to Answer Its Questions Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched an online attack against a New York Times reporter this week after the paper published a deeply sourced…