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Affordable Housing Is at Stake in the NYC Election, but Advocates Can’t Agree on How Affordable Housing Is at Stake in the NYC Election, but Advocates Can’t Agree on How

While half of the proposals on this year’s ballot deal with housing, elected officials and organizers in New York City are divided on their effectiveness.

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The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett

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The gaslight zone.

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Mango Mussolini and Pee Wee German.

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Andrew Cuomo greets Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani before participating in a mayoral debate at Rockefeller Center on October 16, 2025 in New York City.

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The president’s deployments continue to nudge this country ever closer to becoming a genuine police state.

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Pete Buttigieg’s appearance on “Pod Save America” did not go very well.

Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

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Books & the Arts

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The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett

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A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

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A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie

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The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case.

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Right wing protestors yelling.

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The Afghan National Army after US forces left Bagram airfield in the north of Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2021.

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