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.
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.
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.
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?
Three Brooklyn journalists talk about what drove the Trump and Clinton victories, what we learned about our voting system and what happens next.
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.
The Vermont senator’s affordable housing plan is built largely on a call for fuller funding of existing federal programs—perhaps because they work.
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.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, Fordham University politics Professor Christina Greer, Dean of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs David Birdsell and Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service, join hosts City Limits and Gotham Gazette to discuss the April 19 New York State presidential primary. What forces and factors will shape how the state and city vote? What impact will the results have on the national race? And what stakes does the ’16 contest hold for the Big Apple and the Empire State? Those questions and more will be what moderators Ben Max and Jarrett Murphy ask of our panel of experts and surrogates from the presidential campaigns (like Bernie Sanders delegate Mark Winston Griffith).
A raucous rally in a South Bronx park was, said many in the crowd, the first time in a long time that the city’s poorest borough has felt its political voice mattered in a presidential race.