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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It is the Wednesday after the midterms, and comedian and longtime New York political stuntman Randy Credico is smoking an e-cigarette at the Friars Club bar
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.”
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!
As late as 1989, an undemocratic entity called the Board of Estimate made the city’s key decisions. When it was banned, a new political era was born
Instead, the 2018 Democratic Party State Convention began with a PowerPoint address. Followed by another.
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
He is, and probably by a lot, the most famous practicing lawyer in America.
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.
It was nearing ten o’clock on Saturday night, and hundreds of alumni of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest African-American fraternity, were gathered in black tie at Terrace on the Park, a gaudy 1960s-era banquet hall in Queens, for the annual Juneteenth Gala dinner.
It is one of Donald Trump’s chief foreign-policy credentials: that morning a dozen years ago when he marched down Fifth Avenue with the words grand marshal across his chest.
A deep-pocketed real-estate executive is laying the groundwork to mount a challenge to Bill de Blasio in next year’s mayoral elect
For now, Donald Trump is the riddle the Republican Party cannot solve. His stratospheric popularity shows no signs of abating. The situation has become so dire that some top Republicans in New York mused aloud about kicking Trump out of the party altogether
