The folks behind the DREAM (“Don’t Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor”) campaign will never be able to outspend the would-be mayor of New York City. But they believe their fresh approach might give them an edge.
On the left-labor alliances that are key to beating back Trumpism and securing rights and dignity for all.
Review essay of Anya Parampil’s 2024 book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of U.S. Empire. Appeared online on May 21, 2024, and in the June print edition of The New Republic.
Report on Dissident Dialogues, a festival of “dissenting” voices that took place at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 3rd and 4th, 2024.
The left and labor haven’t always seen eye to eye—but they may be on the verge of a fruitful reunion.
The New York governor’s promising tenure has been badly diminished by an array of puzzling decisions.
The departure of a controversial Republican sheriff gave hope to reformers in Western New York. But very little has changed.
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…
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…
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…