The Office of Mass Engagement was a statement that the Mamdani administration’s approach to governance might differ from those of his predecessors: Instead of “I know what I’m doing,” Mayor Mamdani seemed to say, “I need your help.”
A majority of fans now wonder if games are “rigged due to sports gambling,” and a staggering 65 percent believe athletes alter their play to “help gamblers win sports bets.”
A pair of recent memoirs by John Fetterman and Joe Manchin inadvertently point to how urgently the dysfunctional Senate needs reform.
Last year, billionaires made 19 percent of reported federal campaign contributions. Epstein’s gone, but we’re stuck with a class of people with effectively infinite resources that they can devote to whatever they want.
Reading Fetterman and Manchin’s memoirs, it is easy to see the ways in which the Senate’s dysfunction, downstream of this country’s claustrophobic politics, urgently needs remedying.
"Neighbors," a new documentary series on HBO Max, attempts to capture America's mutual loathing and derangement at the neighborhood level. What hope is there for the paranoid suburbs?
The war with Iran will not produce a more democratic country. Much more likely are a protracted civil war that results in a failed state, the continuation of an oppressive state apparatus that partially submits to U.S. demands, or a survivalist regime locked into cycles of conflict.
John Fetterman’s lack of serious attention to political solutions is enabled by a Democratic Party geared toward fundraising and poll-tested, sterile platforms.
It’s not just outrageous that some people have too much money; it’s downright dangerous when tens of millions are so personally inconsequential and so unguarded that they end up in the pocket of a prolific sex offender.
While the United States has turned toward retro fuels and wild swings in trade policy, China is successfully positioning itself as a reliable partner.
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The war with Iran will not produce a freer or more democratic country.
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The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class.
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
