David Kaufman

New York

New Features Editor and Columnist at New York Post

Editor/Columnist @nypost [email protected] — Adjunct Fellow: @TLVinstitute

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Articles

Love loses out as corporate sponsors flee Pride in fear of the White House

1 week ago | monocle.com | David Kaufman

Amid political pressures from the current administration, long-time sponsors are withdrawing their support from US Pride events. But despite the financial and political challenges, celebrations are full steam ahead. It will be a very different LGBTQ Pride month this year in the US - the first since the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the implementation of his anti-diversity initiatives across every element of government and society.
AOC is the nightmarish new Donald Trump of the Left

1 week ago | yahoo.com | David Kaufman

Out with the old, in with the younger – that’s the only way to explain a baffling new poll which revealed that a majority of New York Democrats would prefer to be represented by far-Left Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who the White House has already started to call the “Democrat Party leader”, than the more moderate Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
New York isn't blinking in its congestion-price standoff with Trump

1 week ago | monocle.com | David Kaufman

There have been many calls for resistance against president Donald Trump since he returned to the White House in January - but surprisingly little action. New York, however, appears to be stepping up and taking the fight against executive overreach to the streets - literally. Just weeks before Trump's inauguration, New York introduced the most expansive congestion-pricing scheme in the nation.
Demanding slavery reparations now is proof Democrats have lost the plot

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | David Kaufman

Even for a party as troubled as the Democrats, the decision by a group of lawmakers to introduce a congressional resolution demanding reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans is particularly hairbrained. It’s not that African Americans, like myself, do not deserve formal recognition for the centuries of labour our ancestors were forced to contribute to building this nation. But reparations? It’s the wrong solution from the wrong party at the wrong time.
Demanding slavery reparations now is proof Democrats have lost the plot

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | David Kaufman
The Starry Rise of Astrotourism

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | David Kaufman

Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry were onto something with their much-hyped (and equally ridiculed) jaunt into space. But neither pop stardom nor a billionaire fiancé is necessary to tap into travel’s latest frontier: the skies. From the mountains of Colorado to the deserts of Arabia, astrotourism is capturing the imagination—and wallets—of intrepid nomads. One step below rocketing into the heavens, astrotourism is all about stargazing.
Andrew Cuomo Is Betting on Jewish Voters. But Do They Want Him as the Next Mayor?

4 weeks ago | city-journal.org | David Kaufman

Even by the madcap standards of New York City mayoral races, the 2025 campaign for City Hall looks like a doozy. The election’s most unanticipated elements are the surprise surges of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo—who survived short-lived political exile to become the race’s frontrunner—and his chief rival, Queens socialist and state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. One of Cuomo’s big bets is on Jewish voters. Anti-Semitism, Cuomo declared in early April, is his campaign’s “most important issue .
Trump's Middle East tour is a chance to bring Riyadh into the Abraham Accords

4 weeks ago | monocle.com | David Kaufman

The sabre-rattling has never been louder as Donald Trump plots the first foreign tour of his second administration, which begins on Monday with a three-day jaunt in the Middle East. The US president is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar while in the region, conjuring up memories of a similar itinerary in 2017.
The most courageous thing Kamala Harris could do is disappear

1 month ago | aol.co.uk | David Kaufman

Get ready folks, Kamala Harris is back – at least for the next week or so. But a week is probably all Harris needs for voters of every party to hope she goes back into exile, and never returns. Tonight will see Harris get back to basics with her first high-profile speech in ages. The location (downtown San Francisco) and the crowd (supporters of Emerge America, which aids Democratic women) could not be warmer or fuzzier.
The most courageous thing Kamala Harris could do is disappear

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | David Kaufman

But courage runs both ways and the most courageous thing Harris could do after her failed presidential bid is bow her hat and make room for someone else. Polling suggests that Harris could win the California governorship and she is expected to decide this summer. But this is not necessarily what's best for California - home to both the nation's most unaffordable housing and unsavoury progressive-adjacent social ills, from homelessness and addiction to wokeness and intersectionality.