Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was outraged Monday after learning that a city council staff member had been detained by federal immigration officers earlier that day. “I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials at a […]
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Nearly 15,000 New York Nurses Strike After Failed Contract Negotiations
Nurses demand fair pay, healthcare, and safe staffing levels, but hospitals plead poverty despite executives’ exorbitant pay Politicians and officials support the nurses, criticizing hospitals’ prioritization of profits over workers and patient care State of emergency declared as hospitals hire expensive temporary workers rather than meet nurses’ reasonable demands Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty […]
Read MoreNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces Universal Child Care Plan
Source: Pool / Getty New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is on track to fulfill one of his major campaign promises only a week into his term. On Thursday, Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan that put New York City on pace to become the first American city with universal child care. […]
Read MoreMamdani Is Actually a Social Democrat. Here’s Why That Matters.
Hizzoner wants instead to make transportation, childcare, and housing more “affordable” for every New Yorker. That makes him not a democratic socialist but a social democrat. What’s the difference? The latter term has never caught on in the United States, but its adherents have a long and successful history in Europe and in developed nations […]
Read MoreNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Reverses Eric Adams’ EOs Restricting Anti-Israel Boycotts, Defining Antisemitism
Source: JASON ALPERT-WISNIA / Getty One thing you have to appreciate about New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is that he’s like the anti-Trump. President Donald Trump must know how often people are calling him racist, xenophobic, and an authoritarian wannabe dictator. He responds to it by doubling down on his racism, xenophobia, and […]
Read MoreMAGA Loses Its Collective Mind Over Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration
“Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote. “Remember when Clooney, after the […]
Read MoreMAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over 3 Words at Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration
“Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote. “Remember when Clooney, after the […]
Read MoreWhat Everyone Gets Wrong About Mamdani’s Public Grocery Store Idea
When studying food insecurity, scholars distinguish between “availability” (what is actually on the shelves) and “access” (what shoppers can afford). Particularly in American cities, it is overwhelmingly access, not availability, that drives food insecurity: There’s plenty of food on the shelves where food-insecure people shop; there’s just not always enough money in their pockets. That, […]
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Wu-Tang Stays: Staten Island Plots To Secede When Mamdani Becomes Mayor
Source: FrankRamspott / Getty The stunning win by Zohran Mamdani to become New York City’s next mayor has reignited some Republican politicians on Staten Island to call for the borough to secede from the rest of the city, and they’re tapping into decades of feeling slighted by the rest of the city as fuel for […]
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Republican Lawmakers Take the Mask Off Over Bondi Beach Shooting
“Twenty-eight thousand people die a year from a snake bite, a certain snake. It’s a viper. It’s said to be the most poisonous snake in the world,” Trump said. “But the venom rarely works, it’s so powerful, the snake. It’s said to be the most poisonous. That, the black mamba, the brown mamba, and the […]
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Why Trump May Never Be Popular Again
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump started the year having won the popular vote for the first time, made significant gains with voters of color and consolidated the support of Republicans on Capitol Hill, on the federal judiciary, […]
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Transcript: Why Trump May Never Be Popular Again
Is this pervasive sense that we have to win the white guys so deep that the party is informally signaling: if you’re not white-guy-friendly—or really, if you’re not a white guy, [don’t run] in some ways? Segers: I do think there may be that underlying message. I also think that, for their part, women politicians […]
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Zohran Mamdani’s First Big Housing Test Is Already Here
Pinnacle’s restructuring advisers have blamed three concurrent problems for their insolvency: inflation, interest rates, and, in so many words, tenants. While inflation has undoubtedly increased operating costs, and Pinnacle’s mortgage rates leapt from 3 percent to as much as 10.25 percent, according to court documents, it’s the third item on its list of grievances that […]
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Elise Stefanik Hits Back After Trump Threw Her Under Bus for Zohran
What a baffling, tone-deaf statement. How would people already struggling with rising prices have the time or money to uproot their jobs, homes, and families to move to a state that has a few thousand more Republican voters? “Move to a red state where the general cost of living and quality of life is worse, […]
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Trump’s New Love for Zohran Spells Trouble for Elise Stefanik
What a baffling, tone-deaf statement. How would people already struggling with rising prices have the time or money to uproot their jobs, homes, and families to move to a state that has a few thousand more Republican voters? “Move to a red state where the general cost of living and quality of life is worse, […]
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Yes, Zohran Mamdani Still Thinks Trump Is a Fascist
Senator Elisa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, received a bomb threat at her home on Friday. In a statement on X, a spokesperson for Slotkin said that she wasn’t home at the time, and that the police “searched the property and confirmed no one was in danger.” The offices of representatives Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, […]
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White House Press Sec Tries Desperately to Spin Mamdani Meeting
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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Laura Loomer Completely Melts Down Over Mamdani-Trump Meeting
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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Trump Wrecks Republicans’ Biggest Talking Points on Zohran Mamdani
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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WTF Did Zohran Mamdani Say to Trump in White House Meeting?
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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Zohran Mamdani Refuses to Take Back Calling Trump a Fascist
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With Trump
In a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” “Whereas socialist ideology necessitates […]
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Trump Is Confused by Zohran Mamdani’s Viral Election Night Warning
“Now the pressure on Ukraine is one of the most difficult,” Zelenskiy said in his native language, standing outside his presidential office, in a video statement. “Now is one of the most difficult moments of our history. Now, the pressure on Ukraine is one of the heaviest. Now, Ukraine can face a very difficult choice—either […]
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Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck Now
When Democrats ended the government shutdown a week after the election—without securing an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies—it seemed like they were throwing Trump a lifeline. The shutdown had worked for the party politically: Trump’s poll numbers, which had been steadily declining, shot downward, and the Democrats successfully turned the off-year election into a […]
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Mamdani Outlines Approach for Trump Meeting
Source: BG048/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Incoming New York Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani will share his vision for the city in a meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday. The mayor-elect held a press conference Thursday morning to answer questions and provide his approach to the White House meeting. During a Thursday press conference, Mamdani made it […]
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Zohran Mamdani Reveals What He Plans to Talk to Trump About
The Trump administration first bungled the release of the files in July, when the Justice Department issued a memo that contradicted Attorney General Pam Bondi on the alleged existence of Epstein’s so-called “client list.” Since then, Trump has attempted to brush off the scandal, repeatedly referring to it as a Democrat-invented “hoax.” “For years our […]
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Chi Ossé, Mamdani Ally, Files Paperwork to Take On Hakeem Jeffries
The United States, of course, is a “nation of immigrants.” That’s not a lie. No American citizen, with the exception of Native Americans, has a family history that does not involve some form of immigration to the United States. The phrase “a nation of immigrants” was popularized as the title of President John F. Kennedy’s […]
Read MoreZohran Mamdani’s Moral Revolution
Presumably, it was Muslims among the crowd who cheered when, in his victory speech, the mayor-elect broke into Arabic, referencing the “Little Egypt” section of Astoria, Queens, known for its Muslim population. “We will fight for you because we are you,” Mamdani said. “Or, as we say on Steinway, ana minkum wa alaikum.” (This roughly […]
Read MoreWhen A Muslim Democratic Socialist Mayor Has An Africana Studies Degree
Source: Newsday LLC / Getty The right is losing its collective mind again, and it’s been delightful to witness. This time, they’re imploding over Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Ugandan-born, South African–raised, Queens-bred Muslim Democratic Socialist who has been elected mayor of New York City. For the pundit class that’s spent years fearmongering about affirmative action, […]
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ICE Tries to Turn Zohran Mamdani’s Win Into Chance to Poach From NYPD
“This evening, I’m also delighted to report that Ka-ZACK-a-stan has officially agreed, and that’s official now, as of about 15 minutes ago. A tremendous country with a tremendous leader, has officially joined the Abraham Accords,” Trump said, mere feet away from President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. “And I just want to thank you, Mr. President. It’s a […]
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The Quicksand Pits That Await Zohran Mamdani—and How He Can Avoid Them
This is certainly an “only in America” story, but I do not mean that in the normal, heroic sense. I mean it in the creepy, corporate, it’s-all-about-profit sense. CBS began life in 1927 as a radio network, expanding into television as that medium grew. It had entertainment and news divisions, and later sports; its news […]
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