Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Planning No Kings Demonstrations for July 4, 2026
Our 250th anniversary requires pro-Trump redcoats as well as pro-democracy bluecoats to re-enact our anti-monarchial founding.
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Ellisons Tap Saudis to Fund News Media Takeover
If the Saudi crown prince owns a piece of CNN and CBS News, how will they cover No Kings Days?
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Trump Seeks Monument to Self, Gold Preferred. Here’s My Idea.
Nothing would better become him, and our times, than a Golden Calf, crowned with his own head.
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The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way.
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, and Trump’s withholding food stamps—while he was praising himself for building a ballroom and rebuilding the Lincoln bathroom—only accelerated his descent in the polls.
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Israel Considers Instituting a Death Penalty for Palestinians—but Not for Jews
The bill, which would impose a mandatory death penalty on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis, was introduced by the far-right Jewish Power party, and a sizable minority of Knesset members backed the legislation.
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Candidate Trump Boosts Republican Turnout. President Trump Boosts Democratic Turnout.
Trump in power has meant death for Republican prospects in every election held while he’s occupied the Oval Office. His skills on the stump (slander, vilification) don’t play so well when they dominate his performance in office.
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The End of the Pre-Trump 21st Century
This week brought down the curtain on the initial, pre-Trump years of the 21st century, with the death of Dick Cheney and, today, Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that this would be her final term in Congress.
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A Democratic Sweep
Riding on the public’s pervasive economic anxiety and its substantial but not quite so widespread fury and fear of Trump’s trashing of American democracy, the Democrats won big from coast to coast yesterday.
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The Anti-Mamdani Editorials, Considered
Perhaps the most recurrent theme in the major newspapers’ criticism was that Mamdani’s proposed 2 percent tax hike on that share of a taxpayer’s yearly income that exceeds $1 million would lead to mass millionaire flight from New York.
