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Poor countries struggled to get covid vaccines. Now it’s happening with game-changing pills.
Licensing deals for low-income countries require factories to retool, and middle-income countries are left to compete with rich nations. → Read More
2021 New York City comptroller primary election results
Judging by the polls, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson could have the best shot at becoming the city’s next comptroller. → Read More
Five things to watch in NYC’s primaries
Tuesday, June 22 is the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the 2021 New York City primary. → Read More
Maya Wiley won over The Strokes. For some, that’s enough to back her.
Is Maya Wiley cool?Saturday night’s electric 1,200 bodies jostling rock concert with The Strokes, comedian John Mulaney and Rep. → Read More
Sliwa likely to win Republican mayoral primary – but who knows?
The headlines in New York City have largely been dominated by the Democratic mayoral primary – and with good reason. → Read More
Why are Democratic parties staying out of the mayoral race?
Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn personally endorsed Eric Adams for mayor back in March, but for a while, the county party ap → Read More
Supersized PAC spending in the mayoral race
There’s a lot of independent spendingThe $15.7 million in independent spending reported so far in the 2021 New York City primaries is already near the → Read More
John Liu had to come around on Andrew Yang
John Liu: The unlikely endorserBefore state Sen. → Read More
John Liu: The unlikely endorser
Before state Sen. → Read More
Mayoral candidates and their bad answers
All of the eight leading Democrats vying to win the June 22 primary interviewed with The New York Times to win the paper’s coveted endorsement. → Read More
Can the Barrons swap seats again in City Council District 42 in East New York?
Trying to keep track of all the City Council races? Check out our dedicated Council Countdown section. → Read More
Rage against the Queens Machine
A group of seven Democratic candidates running for the New York City Council District 20 seat in Flushing, Queens, have come together to form a coalit → Read More
Is Staten Island ready to be represented by a progressive?
Just two months after filing to run for Staten Island and southern Brooklyn’s conservative-leaning congressional seat in 2022, political newcomer Brit → Read More
More than 400 Asian New Yorkers sign letter opposing Yang
Pauline Park, a Korean American transgender progressive activist, was skeptical of Andrew Yang when he ran for president. → Read More
The end of the Zoom campaign?
When the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club held the inaugural Zoom forum for mayoral candidates in October, some 1,400 viewers turned in to watch as c → Read More
Candidates Zoom? Out.
The end of the Zoom campaign?When the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club held the inaugural Zoom forum for mayoral candidates in October, some 1,400 vi → Read More
Democratic activist enters Staten Island’s borough president race
In 2018, Staten Island native Lorie Honor introduced former Rep. → Read More
Will Trump ever leave Staten Island?
Former President Donald Trump has left the White House, but Trumpism may not be leaving Staten Island, New York City’s Republican stronghold, anytime → Read More
Why Max Rose didn’t see a path to City Hall
Roxanne Mustafa, one of the founders of the progressive grassroots group Staten Island Women Who March, voted for centrist Democratic Rep. Max Rose in his first run for Congress in 2018 and again when he ran in 2020, each time also volunteering on his campaign. But asked if she would have voted for Rose had he jumped into the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, Mustafa said, no,… → Read More
NYC pols want to change NYPD’s role at polling sites
A series of recent incidents in Brooklyn has some lawmakers from New York City worried that police are not impartially guarding polling locations – an → Read More