David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
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People are dying, the governor is popular, everyone is inside—suddenly the city is all upside down.
Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?
He’s getting in late. He’s out of step with his party. The news media thinks he’s a joke. All of that was true when he first ran for mayor of New York City, too.
He’s a young Latino former mayor with serious policy proposals on all the big issues. But he’s barely polling at 1 percent. What went wrong?
People are dying, the governor is popular, everyone is inside—suddenly the city is all upside down.
She became a star without paying her dues to the city’s entrenched establishment. Now, longtime political insiders are starting to grumble.
The Justice Democrats helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected. Who are they after next?
Energized progressives are thrilled with their momentum in the Trump era. But the party’s blue-collar base might not want what the new left is delivering.
Progressive favorite Zephyr Teachout promises to retool the powerful New York prosecutor’s office to go straight after Donald Trump. She’s not the only one. Is this the road Democrats want to go down?
A porn star in the courtroom? The president’s secrets at stake? Why Kimba Wood isn’t even blinking.
Crazy man or chess master? 4 hours with Donald Trump’s wildest adviser.
The New York senator has made sexual assault the focus of her political career. Now, the world has caught up with her.
Cuomo stops. He wags a finger in mock annoyance, a broad smile across his face. “Don’t start trouble for me today. You are supposed to be my friends. This is not helpful.”
Jared Kushner, through pedigree and temperament, could reach out one of his long, elegant fingers and tap everyone in the West Wing on the shoulder and urge them to just cool out a bit.
Getting fired by Trump looked like a perfect PR move for the hugely ambitious and popular New York prosecutor. Just one problem, say his friends.
"I like you. You and me, we’re going to be best friends.”
It is early January, and Eric Schneiderman is sitting in his 25th-floor office above Lower Manhattan, doing his best Donald Trump impression, puckering his lips into a duck face, scrunching up his nose and lowering his voice into something that resembles the president’s outer-borough growl.
Sliding in popularity and heading for a re-election fight, New York's mayor digs in against the tycoon based right in the middle of his city.
