Political Columnist & Features Writer, @NYMag
Joined June 2010
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“It would always be different here because New York is its own thing — for its size, its breadth, its indomitable self-regard — a city experienced maximally, in close quarters, for those fortunate and masochistic enough to try.”
So this is how it feels. nytimes.com/2026/06/14/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani kicks off a Claire Valdez canvas with a “Knicks in Four” chant
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David Freedlander retweeted
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Honesty from #JamesCarville Once you become famous in America, the only way you can earn a living is by being famous,” said Carville, …”You can’t work races. You become so much the story that wherever you go people follow you as much as the candidate.” nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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When your FYP is filled with hipster band discourse from 2005
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There is a theory going around that the GOPers who Trump endorsed against and who lost (Cassidy, Cornyn, Massie, etc) is only partly about Trump's power, and partly about anger at incumbents, and this would seem to give credence to that theory
Jun 3
Trump's endorsed candidate loses in #IAGov
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This is far more entertaining than anything that I've actually ever seen on 60 Minutes
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Were some of you under the previous impression that politics was, in fact, beanbag?
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Donald Trump’s actual superpower is his ability to jump to the front of the parade and act like he has been there all along nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/po…
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Four weeks until Election Day and Dan Goldman is campaigning at the East Broadway Mall. “I have spent more time in Chinatown than in any other neighborhood in the entire district”
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David Freedlander retweeted
May 23
How a video outside a billionaire’s house led to the mayor’s first real mini-scandal - via @freedlander @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Two years ago Trump spent days ripping the judge in his criminal case for not suspending the trial so he could attend Barron’s high school graduation
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David Freedlander retweeted
There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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Watch it be Leon Panetta
May 21
No word yet who the guests will be on tonight's series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but there are lots of black SUVs parked outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, the stage door has been covered with a tent and there are several police officers nearby.
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For those keeping score we are now in the 35th day of this news cycle
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Jeff Bezos blasts Mamdani for casting billionaire Ken Griffin as a 'villain' in viral video filmed outside NYC penthouse trib.al/4TPs7ih
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