CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Video: Is There Any Suspense Left in Campaign 2016?
Jarrett Murphy |
The actual result of the election is just one nodule of suspense (or curiosity, or worry, or terror, depending on your perspective) as Election Day approaches.
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No Backspace: The Surprising Support for Trump Among New Chinese Immigrants
Rong Xiaoqing |
Newcomers in Chinatown have convinced themselves that the xenophobia stoked by the Republican nominee will distinguish between documented and undocumented immigrants. They are, the author writes, tragically mistaken.
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Max & Murphy: Is there Housing Policy Amid the DNC Hurrahs?
Jarrett Murphy |
Rachel Fee of the New York Housing Conference joins Gotham Gazette’s Ben Max and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits to discuss whether the federal policies and programs that most affect housing affordability in New York City have been on the radar screens at the RNC or DNC.
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Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent
Joel Berg |
Joel Berg argues that the focus on the 1 percent, and the claim by Bernie Sanders that his backers represented grassroots America, both blur the realities of class, identity and politics in 2016 America.
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Video: Race and the Media in Campaign 2016
Jarrett Murphy |
The 2016 presidential campaign has produced rather abundant and unusually blunt talk about racism, exclusion and privilege. But who’s really part of that conversation? What’s it missing? And what will happen to the exchange when the campaign rallies are over?
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Video: What the Primary Results Really Mean in Brooklyn
Jarrett Murphy |
Three Brooklyn journalists talk about what drove the Trump and Clinton victories, what we learned about our voting system and what happens next.
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These Young New Yorkers Have Questions for Bernie and Hillary
Lelosa Imasuen |
Is Sanders too old to get anything done? What’s Clinton going to do for the homeless? Does anyone care about the foreign news that’s not on American televisions? The students at one CUNY campus want to know.
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NYS Primary and the ’16 Campaign: Are we Witnessing GOP’s Demise, Racism’s Rise, or all of the Above?
Jarrett Murphy and Marc Bussanich |
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner told our primary preview event that the likely outcome of the presidential race is the “destruction of a once great party.” But political scientist Christina Greer notes the Trump phenomenon’s fearsome potential. Watch the clips.
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Your Expert Guide to the New York Presidential Primary
Jarrett Murphy |
When the voting is done in New York next Tuesday night, campaigns, analysts, donors and others will be looking at way more than the results of the horse-race in either party.
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CityViews: Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds
Tara Tabassi |
Like most NY pols, the former secretary of state wants more counter-terrorism funding for New York City. Here’s why one member of the War Resisters League doesn’t.
