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On one level, David Hogg is performing a service the party badly needs: He’s one of relatively few people acknowledging that the party’s current gerontocracy has been a massive failure with massive ...

If all we learn is how to mouth a buzzword and keep it handy for use in soundbites, we’ve failed the very voters we claim to ...

But there are broad shifts underway in the Democratic Party, and 2025 may be remembered as a decisive turning point. After ...

Rep. Jerry Nadler, the long-serving dean of the New York congressional delegation and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary ...

Real estate titans and financiers are forming super PACs to try to defeat Zohran Mamdani. Some organizers say that they won’t ...

The scandal-scared independents running for New York City mayor stand little chance against frontrunner Zohran Mamdani — even ...

President Donald Trump has publicly raised the possibility of the federal government assuming control over Washington, D.C., ...

Republicans across the country are working hard to pass bills banning something that the fringe corners of the internet told ...

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is planning to axe an elite NYPD task force that charged into a Park Avenue ...

Trump can't dictate whether New York follows his new policies, but the threat of withholding federal funding sets up an ...