2020 campaign
What Joe, Mike, Pete, Amy, Bernie and Elizabeth Offer NYers
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Local fans of the top Democratic hopefuls rattled off talking points and spoke from the heart during a special live-audience, extended version of the Max & Murphy Show.
affordability
Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
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Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.
bernie sanders
CityViews: De Blasio’s Second Act Will Feature the Same Script but a Larger Audience
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Whatever role he plays on the national stage, de Blasio will be part of the struggle for the soul of the Democratic party, writes the mayor’s biographer.
bernie sanders
Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent
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Joel Berg argues that the focus on the 1 percent, and the claim by Bernie Sanders that his backers represented grassroots America, both blur the realities of class, identity and politics in 2016 America.
bernie sanders
No BackSpace: How the Left Turns Off the Public and Turns On Itself
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In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Joel Berg takes a hard look at his allies on the Left—from Occupy to Bernie Bros—whose tactics are often less compelling than their politics.
campaign 2016
Video: Race and the Media in Campaign 2016
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The 2016 presidential campaign has produced rather abundant and unusually blunt talk about racism, exclusion and privilege. But who’s really part of that conversation? What’s it missing? And what will happen to the exchange when the campaign rallies are over?
Brooklyn
Video: What the Primary Results Really Mean in Brooklyn
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Three Brooklyn journalists talk about what drove the Trump and Clinton victories, what we learned about our voting system and what happens next.
presidential primary
These Young New Yorkers Have Questions for Bernie and Hillary
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Is Sanders too old to get anything done? What’s Clinton going to do for the homeless? Does anyone care about the foreign news that’s not on American televisions? The students at one CUNY campus want to know.
Affordable Housing
Bernie Sanders’ Housing Plan Goes With the Tried and True
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The Vermont senator’s affordable housing plan is built largely on a call for fuller funding of existing federal programs—perhaps because they work.
bernie sanders
NYS Primary and the ’16 Campaign: Are we Witnessing GOP’s Demise, Racism’s Rise, or all of the Above?
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Former Congressman Anthony Weiner told our primary preview event that the likely outcome of the presidential race is the “destruction of a once great party.” But political scientist Christina Greer notes the Trump phenomenon’s fearsome potential. Watch the clips.