On the evening of Nov. 3, 1970, 50-year-old feminist and Jewish lawyer Bella Abzug was elected to represent New York’s 19th Congressional district on Manhattan’s West Side. Scott Stringer, who went on to become Manhattan Borough President and New York City Comptroller, was then 10 years old. He remembers watching the election returns with his […]
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A fight over New York City’s pension investments has turned into a high-profile clash over Israel, with Mayor Eric Adams accusing Comptroller Brad Lander of quietly divesting from Israel bonds in a move he says echoes the goals of the BDS movement. In a letter sent by a deputy on Sunday, Adams alleged that Lander […]
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President Trump and Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis had a giddy name for the temporary ICE facility they built quickly on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades: “Alligator Alcatraz.” “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” Trump boasted July 1 as he toured the detention facility for […]
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Lawmakers reacted largely along party lines to the Trump administration’s decision to attack three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night. Although supporters and detractors of the decision to bomb the three sites could be found on both sides of the aisle, members of the president’s party were more inclined to celebrate what one, Republican House […]
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Remember the “alt-right”? Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News. Groups that monitor extremism say that has changed, and that the extremes have become mainstream. They […]
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Lee Zeldin, the rising Jewish Republican star tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said he and his family were among other incoming officials targeted with bomb threats, in his case, one that came with a pro-Palestinian message. The FBI said Wednesday it was aware of “numerous bomb threats and swatting […]
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Sid Rosenberg was anxious, despite his decades speaking to the public, as he prepared to take the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “I was nervous, 100%, when I was about halfway down the red carpet, walking closer and closer to the podium and the microphone,” the conservative talk radio host […]
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In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, in Israel as in the US, some couples decide not only not to marry a person with antithetical views – but even to split up over such disagreements. By one estimate, as many as 30% of Americans are in relationships with partners who do not share their political viewpoint. In the […]
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