A new rail bridge opens in New Jersey, but all eyes are on the Gateway Program’s tunnel funding crisis.
New Jersey
Posted inTransportation
How Not to Build Infrastructure Projects
The Hudson Tunnel Project between New York and New Jersey is officially a political nightmare en route to the midterms.
Posted inPolitics
Progressive Win in New Jersey Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing
Analilia Mejia won a close congressional primary race by preparing constituents for encounters with ICE. She warned that the agency’s surveillance technology needs more attention.
Posted inPolitics
Big Money Is Back
The 2026 primaries will likely see even bigger levels of corporate and issue-based PAC spending. But there may be diminishing returns on these investments.
Posted inEconomic Policy
New Jerseyans Demand State Divestment From ICE Profiteer Palantir
Locals at a routine state investment council meeting this week told board members they must get taxpayer money out of the surveillance tech company.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Andy Kim vs. the Machine—Again
The New Jersey senator is opposing his own party’s efforts to defang anti-corruption measures. In an interview, he depicted the fight as critical to regaining public trust.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Electric Bill Election
On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races, including those in Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inPolitics
The 2025 Election’s Hudson River Divide
Through the campaigns of Zohran Mamdani and Mikie Sherrill, we can see a path that tenuously unites both social democrats and moderates. Future Democratic electoral successes will rest on a foundation of progressive economic populism.