Articles

• This civil rights lawyer sued the mayor’s office 34 times. Then the city elected his good friend

  Interview with Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer and friend of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

• Rep. Dan Goldman on abortion rights, the debt ceiling deal and defending democracy

  Interview with Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10).

• Founding director of Cannabis NYC on the factors thwarting the rollout of legal weed

  Interview with Dasheeda Dawson, NYC’s first-ever Weed Czar.

• Former mayoral candidate Maya Wiley on reclaiming democracy

  Interview with 2021 NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.

• City Council leader talks crime, policing and redistributing power

  Interview with New York City Council Member Tiffany Caban.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC leader on the lasting benefits of mentorship

  Interview with Alicia Guevara, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC.

• Nonprofit CEO Udai Tambar on the life-changing power of tennis

  Interview with Udai Tambar, CEO and president of New York Junior Tennis & Learning.

• Author and advocate Alissa Quart on the power of underrepresented voices

  Interview with author, advocate, and head of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project Alissa Quart.

• State Democratic leader on the party’s 2022 losses and opening dialogue with the far left

  Interview with New York State Democratic Committee Chair Jay Jacobs.

• New York’s longest-serving Assembly member on how to really get things done in Albany

  Interview with Dick Gottfried, New York’s longest-serving state assemblyman.

• Liz Holtzman, ‘the Lion Killer,’ (still) knows her way around the political den

  Interview with former U.S. Congresswoman Liz Holtzman.

• How Sean Patrick Maloney won big in the midterms—and lost his own seat

  On an election night that saw Democrats do surprisingly well nationwide, the leader of that effort, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, became the first chair of either party’s House campaign committee to lose a race for re-election since 1992.