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Eric Adams
June 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
Mainstream Reporters Are Parroting the Republicans’ Idiotic Talking Points About Crime
The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.
June 23, 2021
Alex Pareene
Centrist Pundits’ Supposedly Savvy, Terribly Wrong Takes About the New York Mayoral Race
No, the results didn’t surprise “the left,” and no, they don’t support your arguments about elections everywhere else.
June 9, 2021
Walter Shapiro
Are Democrats Done Fighting Big Money in Politics?
New York City has one of the most generous campaign finance programs in the country. So why are all the leading Democrats in the mayoral race relying on super PACs?
May 28, 2021
Walter Shapiro
How Did New York City Politics Become So Boring?
The mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsize personalities and master operators. Now it’s a snooze fest.
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