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Complaints among Democratic activists and influencers over the DNC’s decision to abort its 2024 “autopsy report” was based on a craving for two things: (1) a clear “who done it” assessment of blame for More »

When we last checked in on MAGA lovebirds Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson, they were reportedly putting th… More »

On June 23, New Yorkers will finally cast their ballots in midterm primary elections. A series of new polls from Emerson College and PIX 11 are showing at least two very tight races, includ… More »

We won’t know for sure until the state budget is officially closed in the next few days, but it seems clear Mayor Zohran Mamdani did an extraordinary job of persuading Governor Kathy Ho… More »

At 3:30 p.m. on a Friday, Cathy Tie sat in Carnegie Hall, wearing a pink sweatsuit bedazzled with cherries, eating a gyro. Tonight was her 30th-birthday party. She’d had a bad year. So she rented out Zankel Hall, which, it turns out, is a thing you can do: Call Carnegie, get the rate sheet, send

Over the last three years, Democratic Party support for Israel has undergone a dramatic reversal. In 2024, 18 Democratic senators backed a measure to block arms sales to t… More »

The partisan gerrymandering frenzy underway in a number of Republican-controlled southern states More »

Well, they’ve done it. Harvard’s faculty has voted, by a significant margin, to approve a plan to cap how… More »

Normally, a president, particularly a second-term president, must choose one of two prime objectives: Down one path is achieving policy gains, even if that means cashing in hard-earned political capital; down another is trying to build up political capital via popular moves that increase the odds… More »

Lorna Hajdini, the banker accused of sexual abuse by her former JPMorgan colleague, has fired back with a lawsuit of her own, claiming that Chirayu Rana fabricated his allegations against her, including that she made him her “sex slave.” More »