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John Fetterman Exits the Progressive Coalition
What Can Actually Fix the Media?
The Apotheosis of Taylor Swift
The Political Currents Mailbag, Fall Edition
Is Israel Actually a Net Negative for DSA?
Can't the Horse Race Journalists Start Speculating on Trump's Convictions?
What's Going to Happen to Eric Adams?
Barkan's Briefly Noted (Substack Edition)
Does Anyone Care About Free Speech?
The Burden of the American Jew
Hakeem Jeffries' Strengthened Hand
The Brain Rot of the Binary Mind
Hakeem Jeffries' Socialist Problem
Social Media Platforms Hate the Written Word
New York City Socialists Aren't Going Anywhere
The Illusion of San Francisco Liberalism
Handling Journalists Isn't Very Hard
Jann Wenner and the Problem with Poptimism
Will These Women Run Against Eric Adams?
Hakeem Jeffries Counts His Votes
The Subtle Humbling of James Dolan
Will the MTA Sabotage Congestion Pricing?
The New Republican Foreign Policy
Reflections on the Great Substack Panic of the early 2020s
Is the Alphabet Left in Trouble?
Why Bernie Sanders Is More Popular Than the Squad
Can the YIMBYs Actually Keep Winning?
The Prestige Media Catches Up to Eric Adams
Threads Crashed Even Faster Than I Thought
Yes, the 2024 Election Will Be Very Close
What the YIMBYs Never Understand
The Twenty-First Century Category Error
Eric Adams' Other Political Nightmare
Eric Adams' Political Nightmare
Nothing is Going to Replace What Twitter Once Was
The Problem with the 'Against Travel' Essay
The Last Political Machine in New York City?
You Send the Bill to the Governor's Desk
The Future Was Born in the 2000s
Will the Failure of Governing Matter?
The Trouble With Book Readings
Does Philadelphia Offer Any Lessons for Eric Adams?
Eric Adams Looks to the Future
BuzzFeed and the Empty Hunt for Scoops
Broadcast TV Rewrites the News
Progressive Governance Gets Its Test
The Ross Barkan Mailbag, Early Spring Edition
The Banal Reality of Elon Musk
Obamaworld's Problem with the Progressive Left
The Big City Problem That Won't Go Away
The 2010s Fallacy That Won't Die
Is the Asian American Realignment Permanent?
The Looming Public Safety Crisis in New York City
Is Lori Lightfoot a Warning for Eric Adams?
The Eric Adams Media Advantage
The Media's Ancient Conflict of Interest
The Closed Imagination of the Online Liberal
Joe Biden and the Magic of Perception
James Dolan Keeps Flirting With Destruction
The Deep Frustration of Digital Media
Why Kathy Hochul Takes on the Left
What Happens When They Get Tough?