Old-time xenophobia, COVID edition
We talked on FAQ NYC with guest host Katie Honan abour Cuomo's long goodbye. And, shifting governors, I wrote a column for the Daily News about America's...
A New Status Cuo for New York
How many shitty men does it take to get a woman as governor in New York, and why do state troopers always seem to be involved? I've got some answers to those...
The Governor Has No Clothes
Sorry for that image, as it looks like Andrew Cuomo is going down swinging—and that he really is going down. We talked about that on FAQ NYC with long-ago...
Death to False Metal
I went down a rabbit hole this week reading about how New York's old Proportional Voting system, backed by Fiorello La Guardia and intended to break down...
How NYC Went From Fun City to The Big Apple
I spent a lot of time in the 1970s this week, amid lots of talk in New York City now about whether the "Bad Old Days" are returning, while also diving into...
(Low)Life
For the Daily Beast, I reviewed I Alone Can Fix It, an account of Trump's disastrous last year, but had to leave out a few New York City bits including him...
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Bragging Rights
I got an early copy of Michael Wolff's new book about the last days of the Trimp presidency, and wrote about some of its juicier bits of gossip for the Daily...
NYC results extra
I wrote a first draft of history for the Daily Beast about Eric Adams' victory, and then talked abut the hurting city he'll surely be leading on CBS Eye on...
There's no going back to ‘normal’
Happy Fourth, as NYC is still waiting for the absentee ballots to get counted to find out what happened in last month's election. In the meantime, I spoke...
2020 Hindsight on 2021
Since my last email, I broke down what we know — and mostly don’t — about New York City’s elections on CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor, and with...
NYC Election Extra
It's been a wild week in NYC, and with the voting done now it'll be weeks before we know most of the winners and losers in this new ranked choice voting...
The Weirdness of Eric Adams, who Wears a Gun, Brandishes Dead Rats, Maybe Lives in Jersey and Just Might Be NYC's Next Mayor
In the final days of NYC's all-important primary, I talked about the race with on CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor (here and here), on We the Fifth...
Recipes for disaster, in politics and with pandemics
For the Daily Beast, I had a long conversation with epidemiologist and legit Most Interesting Man in the World candidate Larry Brilliant, about why COVID is...
Eight is more than enough - A deep dive into NYC's mess of a mayor's race
It’s all coming up mayor’s race this week, as we’re in the homestretch here. On FAQ NYC, we ran down the (terrible) second debate talked with the (excellent)...
Power outages in Soviet New York
How did the left make such a “beautiful mess” of the mayoral race? I have some thoughts in my Daily News column. And at FAQ NYC, we talked about homelessness...
Lessons from the Quid Pro Cuo Bros
My column for the Daily News about guys born in Queens on third base who don't think the rules apply to them. And a long talk on FAQ NYC about the not-so...
NYC Behind the Eight Ball
In place of the gmails I've been sending with my Daily News columns, I'm now using Buttondown to send this email usually once a week and occasionally more...