POLITICS

ONWARDS

“Hope Is Our Greatest Weapon”: New Yorkers React to the Presidential Election

November 6, 2024

At election watch parties in Brooklyn and Manhattan, we asked New Yorkers to share their immediate reactions to Donald Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala Harris.

closing argument

“Wisconsin Gives Me Gut-Level Heartburn”: Milan Singh, in Conversation With Josh Barro

November 4, 2024

In the final installment of Substack’s Election Dialogues, journalist Josh Barro joins Yale’s Milan Singh to talk swing state forecasts and Trump’s down-ballot acolytes.

CLOSING ARGUMENT

“Gun to Your Head, Who’s Going to Win?”: Dan Pfeiffer, in Conversation With Sarah Longwell

November 1, 2024

The former Barack Obama senior advisor and “Pod Save America” co-host joined political strategist Sarah Longwell to assess the state of the presidential race.

TOSS UP

Got Election Anxiety? Nate Silver Can’t Save You.

October 31, 2024

As election day approaches, the founder of FiveThirtyEight talked to us about Americans’ fraught relationship to polling and Silicon Valley’s embrace of the 45th president.

FIRST LADY

“At Least Her Dress Is Pretty”: Brontez Purnell Reviews Melania Trump’s New Memoir

October 30, 2024

The experience of reading Melania Trump’s new memoir, Brontez Purnell writes, was one of “lobotomized boredom punctuated with turbulence and terror.”

IN CONVERSATION

Marianne Williamson and Matt Taibbi on Censorship, Authority, and the 2024 Election

October 29, 2024

For Substack’s “Election Dialogues,” Marianne Williamson talked to author and journalist Matt Taibbi about resisting the hive mentality.

PARKS

Meet Joseph Reiver, the Man Fighting to Save the Elizabeth Street Garden

October 23, 2024

As the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden once again faces eviction, we met up with the man taking on the Eric Adams administration in order to save it.

POLITICS

Geraldo Rivera Tells Us Why He Finally Turned On His Old Friend Donald Trump

October 18, 2024

Journalist Molly Jong-Fast called up the veteran newscaster earlier this week to discuss his decades-long friendship with Donald Trump and to find out why he’s formally endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

RORSCHACH TEST

Claudia Conway on Hunter Biden, Alternative Facts, and Project 2025

October 14, 2024

In anticipation of November 5th, we asked the daughter of George and Kellyanne to sound off on Fox News, Ella Emhoff, iPad babies, and the Electoral College.

CANDIDATE

This Election, Dr. Cornel West is Leading With Love

September 12, 2024

The Presidential candidate tells his brother why a revolutionary vision for America is our way out of the abyss.

ELECTION

“Diva With the Fake Tan”: New Yorkers Sound Off on the Presidential Debate

September 11, 2024

As Kamala Harris took on Donald Trump in the Presidential Debate, we bar-hopped around Williamsburg to find out what matters most to New Yorkers: drama, inflation, and affordable housing.

POLITICS

“You Cannot Delete a People”: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, by Whoopi Goldberg

August 21, 2024

After a viral clapback minted her as a rising star in the Democratic party, the Texas congresswoman talked to Whoopi about the weaponization of wokeness, surviving political attacks, and how to keep your cool in the chaos that is D.C.

RORSCHACH TEST

Van Jones on Think Tanks, Sex Scandals, and Third-Party Candidates

August 15, 2024

In this week’s Rorschach Test, we called on the CNN political analyst to sound off on a mixed bag of subjects, from Cybertrucks to coconut memes and childless cat ladies.

VOICE NOTES

“I’m Mental”: Live From Crackhead Barney’s Unhinged Presidential Debate

June 28, 2024

Downtown, the performance artist hosted an off-the-rails live version of the presidential debate, so we stopped by to hear from the candidates—or their alter egos.