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My 2021 in Reading

We're Still Waiting for the Eric Adams Agenda

Leaving Football Behind

Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear

Love in the Time of Tennis

Someone Should Run for Lt. Governor

Kathy Hochul Wins the Invisible Primary

Life on the Courts

Taking the Twitter Break

Governor Bill de Blasio?

A Book Update

Eichler in the Sand

Ten Years As a Journalist

What is the Left Doing with the Governor's Race?

The Rise of DSA-Lite

The Listless, Very Consequential Election

No One Really Knows What Eric Adams Is Going to Do

The New York State Democratic Party Really Is a Joke

What Happened to Defund the Police?

The Problem with Performative Protest

Can Jumaane Williams Make it as Governor?

How Eric Adams Will Try to Placate the Left

The Decline of the Working-Class Voter

The Defector Model Works

9/11, 20 Years Later

The Left Owns Culture, the Right Owns Power

The Problem With Media

Andrew Cuomo Was Not the Master Builder

Kathy Hochul Is an Opportunity for the Left

The End of Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo Is Actually, Really Finished

Eric Adams vs. DSA

The Existential Problem With the Polls

Eric Adams Takes Aim at Criminal Justice Reform

The AOC Effect

Eric Adams, Mayor

Throwback: The Board of Elections Is Still Terrible

Will Garcia Get It Done?

The Two Paths of Political Strife

Eric Adams, Unleashed

The Prince, My Book on Andrew Cuomo, is Out Today!

Kathryn Garcia, the Dark Horse Who Just Might Win?

The Final, Not-So-Fantastic Four

You're Invited to My Book Party!

Eric Adams and the Weapon of Identity

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Curious Intervention

Kathryn Garcia, Reclaiming the Neoliberal Lane

It's Not Enough to Talk Like the Left

The Andrew Yang Knowledge Gap

Dianne Morales, Under Fire

Kathryn Garcia Makes Her Move

It's the Political Currents One-Year Anniversary

Andrew Yang, Israel, and the Changing of the Left

Scott Stringer, #MeToo, and What's Next for the Left

Eric Adams, the Machine Mayor

Andrew Yang, Bloomberg Without Money

Defund the Police Comes to the NYC Mayoral Race

Can Scott Stringer Pull it Off?

What is the Working Families Party?

Street Vendor Wars and the Mayoral Race

Will They Stop Andrew Yang?

Twilight of the Liberal Left?

The Three Factions of the American Left

Andrew Yang vs. the UFT

Dianne Morales Makes Her Move

The State Assembly Holds Andrew Cuomo's Fate

Andrew Cuomo's Endgame

Andrew Cuomo Is Finished

Big News: My Book About Andrew Cuomo Is Coming Out Soon

Palestinians Are Ignored in Another NYC Mayoral Race

Is Andrew Yang Really at the Front of the Pack?

The Village Voice Is Back

Does All Good Art Have Good Politics?

Can Anyone Help the Vast Lower Middle of New York City?

Casinos and the Crisis of News

Can Andrew Yang Make it in New York City?

Impeachment is Just the Start

Why Isn't New York Vaccinating More People?