Joshua Scheer In this segment of The Katie Halper Show, Katie speaks with congressional candidate Karen Ortiz about Chelsea public housing residents fighting to save their homes—and challenges Zohran Mamdani…
Danny Goldberg ScheerPost It is a truism among pundits that political trends in New York City are not relevant nationally because those of us who live and work here are…
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Progressive candidates rarely remain so after winning public office. Zohran Mamdani is no exception, but his capitulation to New York zionists angered his supporters, and…
Alex Poppe Informed Comment “Books frighten power,” Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets, said on the first day of our fiction workshop. We were at the Macondo Writers Workshop,…
Danny Goldberg ScheerPost As Zohran Mamdani begins his ninth month in office, he continues to function on several levels at once. On the international stage, he recently met with Brazilian…
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Yesterday New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani announced what he called “the first-ever municipal strategy to combat antisemitism.” In the video announcing it, his doe-eyes…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin…
Danny Goldberg ScheerPost There’s a store that I walk by every day on my way to work in midtown Manhattan that caters to tourists. They sell keychains, toys and hoodies…
Julia Conley Common Dreams In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times Saturday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made clear that he plans to take any action available…
Janine Jackson FAIR To translate from the Murdochian, “hateful” here means being opposed to genocide, police brutality and rent-gouging (New York Post, 6/24/26). The win by a number of progressive…
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Three progressive candidates emerged victorious from U.S. congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday, overcoming millions of dollars in spending by corporate interests and AIPAC…
As millions of Americans struggle with soaring rents, crushing childcare costs, stagnant wages and a political system increasingly captured by wealth, a new political force has emerged from New York…
As the Trump administration threatens transgender health care for youth, trans advocates, budget experts, and members of city government question whether the promised funding appears in the mayor’s preliminary budget…
One of Mamdani’s central campaign promises becomes reality only a week after inauguration.
By Joshua Scheer Something most of the media is missing, as Ken Klippenstein reports, is a significant shift involving New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Long a controversial figure,…
