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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Crazy man or chess master? 4 hours with Donald Trump’s wildest adviser.
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.
A Wisconsin ironworker is the Democratic Party’s new star. Does he have anything to offer besides his image?
And long before Donald Trump called for a border wall or accused Mexico of sending its rapists and drug dealers into the United States, the county executive of Suffolk, Steve Levy, emerged on the national scene as a virulent anti-illegal immigrant hardliner, giving voice to a strain of political rhetoric that had previously been the sole province of talk radio, and that would later reach full flower in the Trump campaign.
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.”
Trump’s Cabinet nominees were toxic enough to need outside help—and wealthy or connected enough to afford it.
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.
Everything about the apartment was great. They listed it at the broker-recommended price. Then no one showed up for the open house. There may be one reason why.
Republicans used to love the Common Core education standards. Then the Tea Party stepped in.Chris Christie was for it before he was against it. So, for that matter, was Mike Huckabee.
General feeling among donors, operatives and elected officials seems to be, "Trump? Really?"
Meet the incoherent outsider businessman running for president: Muscle Maker Grill entrepreneur Rod Silva
This was supposed to be the year of Pot-Palooza, when five states are set to hold ballot initiatives that would make marijuana legal for recreational users.
Now, they’re married, and she’s running for the congressional seat he’s giving up.
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.
H.A. Goodman has all the time in the world to sing the Sanders’ praises, but none at all to talk to a creepy, weird reporter guy.
