I thought of Boorstin on a Thursday afternoon early this month, as City Hall reporters trooped into the Blue Room, the traditional site of mayoral press conferences. Half…
Read more Zohran Mamdani, the Everywhere MayorIn August of 2023, Zohran Mamdani launched his reëlection campaign for State Assembly at Sac’s Place, a pizza place in Astoria. Beneath bistro lights strung above the restaurant’s…
Read more Bringing Zohran Mamdani to the Big ScreenSuch visions play a role in any administration, but there’s also the work of actual city governance. When Mamdani and Bloomberg met in September, for a conversation that…
Read more What Zohran Mamdani and Michael Bloomberg Have in CommonA lot of people, even those who will not vote for Sliwa, do seem to find his campaign charming and disarming. Mamdani supporters have asked him to appoint…
Read more Inside Curtis Sliwa’s Never-Ending CampaignAndrew Cuomo likes to make a big deal about the age and inexperience of the likely next mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, but the former governor…
Read more Andrew Cuomo’s Long GoodbyeThe previous tenant paid nine hundred and three dollars a month. (A steal!) On the free market, the unit could fetch three thousand, easy. (Lee said he had…
Read more Would Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Keep Rent-Stabilized Apartments Empty?“I am the poster child of missteps,” Eric Adams told the Times, reflecting on the trajectory of his life, in 2021, when he was running for New York…
Read more Eric Adams Slips Out the Side DoorBack during Michelle Wu’s first run for mayor of Boston, in 2021, I joined a Zoom call to help boost support for her strong climate policies. During the…
Read more Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party?The Eric Adams era in New York City began with questions about whether the avowedly vegan mayor was ordering the branzino at a midtown Italian restaurant run by…
Read more Eric Adams’s Kettle-Cooked AdministrationTAIPEI — 2024 will be a bumper year of elections around the world, but one of the first votes on the calendar will also be one of the…
Read more The first nail-biter election of 2024: TaiwanBRUSSELS — Jacques Delors, who headed the European Commission between 1985 and 1995 and is seen as one of the most important architects of a European internal market…
Read more Jacques Delors, architect of a united Europe, is dead at 98Russia battered Kyiv and Kharkiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least four people and injuring 92 more, after President Vladimir Putin said he was “seething” and…
Read more ‘Seething’ Putin hammers Ukraine with massive missile and drone attacksPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East…
Read more Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next?Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. SARCELLES, France — In the usually lively “Little Jerusalem” neighborhood of Sarcelles, the only people loitering are…
Read more French Jews live in fear amid rising antisemitism following Hamas attacksPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It’s as if one front in the Israel-Hamas war is playing out on the streets of Berlin.…
Read more Israel-Hamas war cuts deep into Germany’s soulFrench Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau wants the public to stay calm over bedbugs in Paris. In an interview with France Inter on Tuesday, Rousseau reassured citizens that there…
Read more Paris bedbugs ‘hell’: Don’t panic, health chief urgesPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is…
Read more Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracksWashington CNN — Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city. While the Dallas…
Read more Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP | CNN PoliticsRussia said it shot down three Ukrainian drones flying toward Moscow and its surrounding regions on Wednesday, in the sixth consecutive day of attacks on the capital region.…
Read more Russia downs 3 drones over Moscow, in 6th straight day of attacksPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — France is slowly catching its breath after days of large-scale urban unrest but a greater…
Read more After the riots, Macron must fix a broken France
