In its Monday report, Status said Raice had pushed back on the inclusion of the Palestinian death toll in a “CBS Evening News ...

Going back to last year, I had a feeling that the Zohran Mamdani-Jessica Tisch dynamic would never easily resolve itself. My ...

I’ve got a new essay in Jacobin on the state of literary publishing, the male novelist, and the curious resurgence of Lonesome Dove. Have a read. It’s not surprising, in the present day, the ...

A couple of days ago, a former mayoral candidate posted that Zohran Mamdani’s might be imploding. The Democrat, former City Comptroller Scott Stringer, was reacting to a photo on Twitter/X that showed ...

Some of you might know I’m the editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan Review, one of the great young literary magazines in the country. I’ve got a great team with me, and they make the magic happen. On ...

Not long ago, Abdul El-Sayed was asked about his decision to campaign with Kamala Harris in Michigan. As a progressive who had been critical of the party establishment, El-Sayed could have made an ...

It can be true, simultaneously, that Donald Trump is dangerous and Donald Trump is weak. All American presidents, by the nature of the position, are dangerous. The powers of the office—the inherent ...

Come next year, Hakeem Jeffries, barring incredibly unforeseen circumstances, will be the speaker of the House of Representatives. This will make him highly influential and much more famous than he is ...

Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift ...

More than six years ago, I suggested the Democratic Socialists of America could build a strong bloc in the New York City Council, taking advantage of the fact that, come 2021, 35 members would be term ...

One of my contrarian views that aged well enough was my skepticism of both Donald Trump impeachments. I had no moral opposition to impeaching Trump in 2019 or 2021—if any president earned two ...

Where do you go in America today? Anywhere, of course, but the question seems harder to answer. What made this country great, and still does, is its vastness—the reservoir of languages, cultures, and ...