Why Mamdani’s Trump-like Affordability Lies Will Hurt, Not Help, New York’s Poor Nobody can make NYC affordable. Zohran’s policies will instead drain city finances, force a reduction in services, and ruin the world’s best low-cost housing system

Posted by - November 2, 2025

Donald Trump rode voter economic illiteracy to the White House last year, through empty promises to lower the cost of eggs and gas, while blaming Joe Biden for high prices that he had nothing to do with. Trump’s charismatic politics of grievance succeeded in shifting public attention from Biden’s hard to convey, but impressive, record

New Bella Abzug Play a Timely Antidote to Trump’s Toxic Masculinity Bella Bella describes the political vision of a trailblazer who was a pioneering crusader for racial justice, women, lesbian and gay rights, and an end to the Vietnam war

Posted by - November 2, 2019

Bella Bella, the new off-Broadway play about the indomitable 1970’s congressional titan Bella Abzug, feels timely and significant in this, the season of Donald Trump’s impeachment. In early 1972, Bella made history because, as Hillary Clinton wrote in a Facebook post that coincided with the play’s opening on October 22, “In the midst of a crisis in