Articles

  • The Rise of the No-Compromise Climate Candidate

    From New York to Texas, a new crop of candidates rejecting fossil fuel donations are calling for legislative action. When the New York state legislature approved the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, in 2019, The New York Times called it “one of the world’s most ambitious climate…

  • The Democratic Plot to Stop a Socialist From Becoming Buffalo’s Mayor

    India Walton won the Democratic primary fair and square. Then the man she beat teamed up with the party establishment—and Republican donors—to take her down. When India Walton beat Byron Brown, a deeply complacent four-term incumbent, in Buffalo’s Democratic mayoral primary in June, she came closer than any woman ever…

  • The Erie County Sheriff’s Race Is a Matter of Life or Death

    Erie County Sheriff and Trump superfan Timothy B. Howard should be as notorious as Joe Arpaio, the famously racist Republican sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, whom Howard sees as a kindred spirit. Yet few outside of Western New York have ever heard of Howard. That’s not for want of headline…