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My 2022 in Reading

Can Media Thrive?

Kathy Hochul's Big Risk

A Fast Year-in-Review

Yes, the Twitter Files Matter

The Great Backlash to Come

The Trouble With the Alphabet Left

Taibbi Agonistes

Are There Answers to Mental Illness?

The Next Rudy Giuliani Isn't Coming

There Aren't Good Billionaires

The Housing Dream Realized

Where Democrats Lost

Is 2016 in the Air?

Crime Is Real

How Bad Is It for New York Democrats?

The Equity Hustle

Is New York Going to Elect a Republican Governor?

Big Real Estate Is Bad, Big Real Estate Is Good

Sometimes You're Held Accountable

The 100 Greatest Baseball Players Ever

The Fiscal Crisis Election

You Don't Need Political Fandom

Can Eric Adams Be Beaten?

Working Hard, Not Smart

Designed to Fail

The Right Wing Is Laughing at You

The Surf Was Up

You Should Read Books

It's Not a Crisis If You Don't Care

Diplomacy When?

Yuh-Line Niou Chooses the Future

Please Review Books

It's Only a NIMBY War Now

You Don't Have a Mass Movement

Dan Goldman, Democratic Congressman

Brian Stelter Never Really Got It

Does the Identity Defense Still Work?

The Gambit That (Probably) Failed

The Next Huge Test for Joe Biden Is Here

Is Money Enough?

She Was Right About Joe Biden

The Fading Eric Adams

Life After Bernie

Infamy Throws in the Towel

The Widest Open Congressional Race in America

Novak Djokovic Should Play in the U.S. Open

What's Possible Anymore?

Kathy Hochul Didn't Feel Any Pressure

Roe v. Wade and Democratic Failure

Eric Adams Gets His Rent Increase

The Long Arm of Socialism

It's Their Problem Now

The Jews and Italians Against Liberalism

How the Institutional Left Failed

The Arena Fallacy

A Reminder: Book Reading This Thursday

The Bloody Redistricting of Yore

A Request and an Update

Congressman Bill de Blasio?

The Cashless Society

A Special Announcement

The Problem With Cronyism

Two Years of Political Currents

The New York Times Ignores Its 20th Century Homophobia

Eric Adams and the Landlords Make Their Move

Kathy Hochul Got Bailed Out

Le Pen's Warning for America

The NY Courts Blew Up the Democrats' Redistricting Plans

The Deal With the Rent

The Race Against the Rent Hike

They Won't Bail Kathy Hochul Out

The Battle of Perceptions on Crime

Kathy Hochul's Massive Mistake

The New York Times Doesn't Need Twitter Anymore

Eric Adams Delivers for Big Real Estate

Why I Write

In Washington, With Pete Buttigieg

Kathy Hochul's Terrible Taxpayer Giveaway

Can Eric Adams Stay Popular?

Andrew Cuomo, Chaos Candidate

Kyrie Irving, Aaron Judge, and the Politics of Inertia

Progressives Have a Chance to Win Big This Year

How Will Russia's War on Ukraine End?

The Crackpot Realism of America, Russia, and Ukraine

Andrew Cuomo Has Nothing to Offer Anyone

Would a Smaller NYS Assembly Be More Progressive?

Does the Working Families Party Have a Strategy?

This Is the Zodiac Speaking

Eric Adams Wields His Weapon of Identity

The Spectacle of Eric Adams

Mayor Brad Lander?

The Paywall is Coming. Become a Paying Subscriber.

Redistricting in New York is Karma

Publication Day

Does Eric Adams Need Big Ideas?

The Death of Sheldon Silver

The Media's Trump Playbook Isn't Working

The First Ever Political Currents AMA/Mailbag!

A Special for Subscribers: Ask Me Anything

Eric Adams, the Mayor of Big Real Estate

The Power of Eric Adams

An Interview With Adam Wilson

Eric Adams and the "Low-Skill" Workers

Eric Adams, Mayor for the Normies