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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As Democrats size up the field, Monday’s speech is a reminder to keep an eye on what the various candidates have already done. Cuomo will enter the 2020 campaign season with a record of accomplishment likely beyond anybody else’s. Whether he will be there in the field, making the case for himself as a declared candidate, is another matter.
He seemed too snarling to ever be the kind of politician the left could fall in love with, too calculating for an era that prizes authenticity above all else. But he took dead aim at Donald Trump on Tuesday night, laying out a vision for the country that looks very different from his fellow Queens native.
“We cannot cast aside what is good in pursuit of what is perfect.”
Politics wins. Good, old-fashioned door-knocking and organizing and phone banking and precinct-walking wins.
The onetime shoo-in for state attorney general worries that anti-Establishment fervor will undo all her dues paying.
In a world which seems to give politicians nothing but second chances, Joe Ganim tests the boundaries of patience
It was us! We did this! We put the fear into King Cuomo! Get fired up because we are at war!
what was at first shaping up into an all-out political brawl is quickly becoming a more predictable political rac
Eric Schneiderman was never the most likely attorney general for New York
On Tuesday, Bill de Blasio will crush his opponents, become the first Democrat to win reelection as mayor of New York City since 1985, and deliver a grievous blow to Donald Trump and his odious agenda for America.
At least that is how de Blasio is selling it
Cy Vance’s glide path to reelection as Manhattan district attorney has hit a speed bump.
