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NYPD needs to be demilitarized but some of the language around Defund seems uncomfortably conservative or libertarian to me. Fundamentally, it's this idea that because something is not working, it's

Trump's approach and aesthetic are really jarring to people who didn't grow up in working class backgrounds or certain urban neighborhoods. Upper middle class commentators still don't get it. Trump's

There's still no affirmative vision or argument from the Joe Biden campaign. It's a sleepier, limper version of Clinton 2016 and that's a very bad thing. Generally, I've believed that

New York's failure to close schools early enough likely led to many deaths that didn't have to happen. It wasn't just about saving the lives of staff, though that was

Andrew Cuomo plans to slash New York's budget by $10 BILLION. This is going to cripple counties across the state. Cuomo has pursued no revenue raisers to attempt to close

The former head of the CDC told the New York Times up to 80 percent of the deaths in New York could have been averted if Andrew Cuomo and Bill

New York has no serious plan for containing disastrous COVID-19 outbreaks in homeless shelters and prisons. The people praising Andrew Cuomo every day should probably think long and hard about