“Practically all my life, people have spoken or voiced on my behalf,” artist Christine Sun Kim once said. But at the Whitney, in an exhibition spanning four floors, it’s her voice we perceive in the signature graphs and charcoal notations that fill the walls. For Kim, who is Deaf, art is a language. Her charcoal […]
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“Unlike many housing programs that depend on uncertain federal funding, the Affordable Housing Retention Act is a state-level solution that ensures lasting affordability.” An apartment building in Brooklyn. Photo by Adi Talwar. New York City’s housing crisis is no longer a distant threat—it is an urgent reality reshaping the lives of countless residents. As the
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Overshadowed by the drama-filled mayoral race, a quietly competitive contest is brewing between the candidates vying to become New York City comptroller: the city’s top watchdog and fiscal officer, charged with auditing its multibillion-dollar budget, scrutinizing mayoral agencies and stewarding the mammoth $285 billion pension fund for retired city workers. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine
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New York City is the greatest city in the world, but we are a not-so-great city for voting. The five boroughs rank 49th for turnout among big U.S. cities, according to a report published in December of last year from UC San Diego. So, among that sea of non-voters — who does come to the
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Hear directly from mayoral candidates about their plans and positions ahead of the June 24 primary election, with a discussion focused on NYCHA and family homelessness. NYCHA’s Claremont Village in the Bronx. Photo by Adi Talwar. New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with an especially crowded field of Democratic contenders in the upcoming
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Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the latest in his ongoing volley of tariffs, levying a 25 percent tax on all automobiles and car parts imported into the United States. “I think our automobile industry will flourish like it hasn’t before,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. Though the
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Vice President J.D. Vance’s last-minute decision to accompany his wife, U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance, on her controversial trip to Greenland has thrown Washington’s arctic strategy into sharp relief. The trip comes amid the president’s comments that the United States must “have” the island and Denmark’s prime minister accusing the U.S. of exerting “unacceptable pressure”
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Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images You have to figure Elise Stefanik has been getting pretty antsy lately. She announced way back on November 10 — so long ago that DOGE was just an evil glimmer in Elon Musk’s eyes — that Donald Trump had offered her the Cabinet-level position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Photo: Kena Betancu/AFP/Getty Images If the capitulation of Columbia University to President Donald Trump was, in retrospect, inevitable, it was still among the darker moments in the modern history of academia. A prestigious, powerful institution that was, theoretically, dedicated to the concept of academic freedom had decided, in a matter of days, it was better
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The White House intends to withdraw Representative Elise Stefanik’s nomination to serve as the US ambassador to the United Nations, according to Republican Senator Jim Risch of Idaho. Risch, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he had just been informed about the Trump administration’s decision “moments ago” when speaking with reporters on
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