New York City’s Long Winter of Discontent. Crime, corruption, and congestion are all part of a city where no one knows if the mayor may go to jail or Andrew Cuomo could return.
Kathy Hochul
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why There Could Still Be an Eric Adams Trial
Why There Could Still Be an Eric Adams Trial. Under Trump, the Justice Department wants to drop the corruption case it pursued under Biden. The judge has every reason to keep it going and it looks like he may.
Posted inPolitics
The Democratic Panic in New York
Trump’s surges in the Bronx, and Long Island saw MAGA victories. Facing reelection, Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul stand at the abyss. Here’s how Empire State liberals can get back on track.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Hochul and McCarthy Battles Show That Unity is Overrated
Democrats should understand that achieving better policy is more important than avoiding division.
Posted inPolitics
Affordable Housing with a Union Label
Co-op City, the mammoth moderate-income Bronx housing complex, long a New York mainstay, offers lessons on what does and doesn’t work.
Posted inPolitics
We Have to Make Organ Donors Whole
I’m alive because of kidney donations, but there wouldn’t be an organ shortage if we made it easier for those willing to literally give a piece of themselves. New York is taking a good first step.
Posted inPolitics
The Democratic Hunger Games
After a redistricting fiasco pits New York Democrats against each other, careers are lost, but the state looks the same.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
Debate Over: Vote by Mail Boosts Turnout
The results from this year’s primaries, combined with recent studies, show that voting from home drives up participation—and could affect the midterms.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
New York’s Smart New Voting Rights Law
On the verge of enactment, the statute enshrines access to the ballot, even establishing a pre-clearance test like the one the Supreme Court struck down in 2013. Why other states should emulate what Albany is doing.
