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Will Mamdani have the courage to stare down the teachers union boss?
City Council Speaker Julie Menin says she’s far more responsible than Mayor Zohran Mamdani; here’s his chance to prove her wrong on at least one front: the council’s obscene bid to shower $10,000 bonuses on public-school teaching assistants. United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew threatens “all-out war” if the mayor vetoes the bill to…
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Wonder why the birthrate is falling? Look how we treat mothers
If I were deciding today whether to become a mother, I would say no. That is something that I, as a mother, am not supposed to admit. It sounds ungrateful, as though I must immediately explain how much I love my children. So let me be clear: My children have made me better, softer, sharper,…
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Trump allies quietly advising GOP candidates to distance themselves from him as polls sink
Republican candidates are quietly getting advice from President Donald Trump’s own circle ahead of November’s midterms to break with the administration and stop talking about the Iran war the way he does, according to a report. MS NOW White House correspondent Jake Traylor reported the shift Sunday on “Alex Witt Reports,” saying strategists close to…
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‘Sleep No More’ and ‘Masquarade’ producer says he would take over shuttering ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’
There’s more than one way to skin “Cats.” The man behind the Box and “Sleep No More” says he’d like to take over the shuttering “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — because he says that, despite Andrew Lloyd Webber’s dire warnings that Broadway is doomed, there’s plenty of viable ways to put on a big-time production…
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The Preacher
Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here. Governor Wes Moore doesn’t care about saving the Democratic Party; if anything, he thinks it has stood in his way. When we met up in May, he quoted Jay-Z: “Industry shady, it need to be taken over.” The 2001 track is about…
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Elevator issues at NYC high-rise mean breakdowns, noises — and lots of taking the stairs: residents
Sometimes it’s better to take the stairs! Residents at a Queens rental complex say elevators have been a scary, noisy mess for a decade — with locals trapped inside three times just last month. The pair of rent-stabilized, affordable buildings at Hunter’s Point South in Long Island City have just nine breakdown-prone elevators for nearly…
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The Contradiction at the Heart of Disability in America
The author in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2025. —Zack Birthday I’m an actor. I also use a motorized wheelchair and a ventilator, and both of them run on Medicaid. The machine that pushes air into my lungs, the chair that moves me across a room, and the aide who gets me out of bed…
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Would You Go Back to a Time Before Smartphones If You Could?
Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube| Pocket Casts Back in the ’90s, before everyone had smartphones, were things just … better? Tech-focused nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of “dumbphones,” iPods, CDs, and other retro technology. According to a 2023 survey, 67 percent of Americans…
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This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
As China’s open-weight AI models become increasingly powerful, the Trump administration is relying on a small group of officials to decide whether and what restrictions should be imposed. The group is scattered across several departments and agencies in Washington—and they all have differing views on the best way to keep the US ahead in the…
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Why the right is freaking out about “third worldism”
The American right has a new enemy. In a new report on Cuba, the State Department argued that Havana has become “the beating heart of a new and distinct kind of Marxism” — which the State Department calls “Third Worldism.” Cuba is spreading this doctrine, per Secretary of State of Marco Rubio, with the explicit…