In a video released earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits behind his desk and looks directly at the camera. He…
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On Thursday, the Trump administration abruptly announced that it was ending the monthslong occupation of Minneapolis and St Paul by thousands of Immigration and…
Alex Pretti was an intensive care unit nurse at a Veteransā Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. One of his colleagues there told the New York Times that…
Last June, a tenant organizer named Cea Weaver wrote an article for Jacobin that bluntly opened with the line, āReal estate runs New York.ā…
In September, Bari Weiss had a modest position in the media landscape as the proprietor of the Free Press. Itās a relatively minor…
According to recent data from the Pew Research Center, 45 percent of American adults say that if they could choose when to live, they…
In an interview with the New York Times after the 2020 election, democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) said she was surprised by the āshare of…
The second Trump administration has been doing a right-wing authoritarian speedrun. The welfare state has been slashed and the machinery of state…
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