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Rather than a mutilated Build Back Better and a carbon-intensive “bipartisan” infrastructure bill, would it be better for Democrats to campaign in 2022 on the need for larger majorities so that things can actually get done? And then off load … Continue reading →

Biden’s refusal to insist that there will be no “bipartisan” infrastructure bill without an unmutilated Build Back Better has already crippled his pesidency.

Biden’s agenda and the Build Back Better bill are in tatters. Rep. Omar has blown the whistle. Progressives must vote No.

at 1:00 p.m. in front of the besieged landmark houses on 9th Avenue and 14th St. Assemblymember Deborah Glick will be there. She writes in a message to concerned constituents that: “The City is woefully lacking in its protection of … Continue reading →

In an act of unsurpassed municipal hubris, the mayor has announced that since one of his developer chums wants to build yet another tower at 14th Street and and Ninth Avenue, an entire row of 1840s designated landmark houses must … Continue reading →

Biden’s refusal to get tough with Manchin and Sinema means that the Build Back Better reconciliation bill has apparently been gutted beyond recognition. Progressives should vote against it, and against the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill dictated by Exxon.

In The Atlantic, McKay Coppins charts the hedge fund’s selling off our once-great newspapers for parts.

about the difference between welfare and social investment.

I hope that Bradley Cooper’s upcoming movie on Leonard Bernstein will at least acknowledge his bisexuality. I mean, when I saw The Aviator, I thought, Where is Gary Cooper?

From Lindsay and Crouse’s 1945 hit satire State of the Union: “There isn’t going to be a free-enterprise system if it means that men are fee to starve!’ Spoken by a hyper-capitalist considering a run for the presidency.