Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly transgender state legislator, triumphed by owning her story and focusing on what voters care about.
Toby Jaffe
Toby Jaffe is a writer from New Jersey and has appeared in The American Prospect, The New Republic, and The Progressive magazine.
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How Democrats Can Break the Vicious Political Cycle
Nominating corporate stand-ins rather than candidates with conviction makes it difficult to deliver meaningful results when in power.
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Is Maya Wiley the Final Hope for Progressives in New York City?
The professor and former De Blasio official has a robust public-spending agenda. But her leadership abilities have been called into question.
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Can a ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Candidate Win New York’s Democratic Mayoral Primary?
To progressives’ dismay, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a hard-line cop supporter, is running strong.
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Andrew Yang’s Discomfiting Vision for New York City
It infuses Silicon Valley–style ideas and private philanthropy into an eroding safety net, and calls for no sacrifice from the wealthy.