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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In his six years as mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio has eaten pizza with a knife and fork, refused to relinquish his Boston Red Sox fandom….
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.
Lynne Patton has brought her boss’s bombastic style to a HUD job usually held by wonks and insiders.
Everywhere Hakeem Jeffries travels, the prospect of his next job in politics precedes him like a rhetorical red carpet, unfurled for the four-term congressman to walk upon should he choose to.
The hail was coming down in great gusts outside, but inside the New York Irish Center, just off the freeway in Long Island City, Queens, dozens of activists and organizers crammed in […]
Jeff Bezos, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio walk into a bar.
That’s it. That’s the whole joke.
The Justice Democrats helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected. Who are they after next?
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.
But if Bloomberg really wants to put the billion or so he can spend on a presidential run to good use, he will turn in his new party membership, re-register as a Republican, and do battle with Trump in the GOP primary, not the Democratic one.
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.”
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.
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.
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?
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!
