Liza Featherstone

New York

Contributing Writer at The Nation

Journalist. Essayist. Teacher. Socialist. Mom. Words @jacobinmag, @newrepublic, @thenation. Author @ORBooks. Member @UAW7902 @UAWRegion9A @nycDSA

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Dispatches From the Culture Wars - June 17, 2025

1 week ago | portside.org | Henry A. Giroux |Lexi McMenamin |Liza Featherstone |Julianne McShane

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — June 17, 2025 Published June 17, 2025 Culture is the Front Line of DemocracyAbout That Parade Learning From 2020Huge Land Return to California TribeCanvassing With Zohran MamdaniDOL Women’s Bureau Gets the DOGE TreatmentDisability Activists: Lessons From the PandemicCDC Workers Resist TakeoverMavis Staples’s Gospel of ResistanceThe Path of FrancisCulture is the Front Line of DemocracyBy Henry A.
Zohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like

3 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Liza Featherstone

Polls are notoriously fickle things, but recent ones in the New York City mayoral race have been fairly consistent: socialist candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, after ten rounds of ranked-choice voting simulation, is within ten points of front-runner former governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani entered the race in low single digits, a little-known and relatively new assemblyman from Queens.
A “Working-Class” GOP Would Not Be Cutting Medicaid

1 month ago | rsn.org | Liza Featherstone

Whatever their “pro-worker” bluster, the Republican Party’s budget of Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy shows the GOP is still the party of sadistic oligarchs, not populists.
A “Working-Class” GOP Would Not Be Cutting Medicaid

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Liza Featherstone

“There’s a big difference between the old Republican Party that focused on Wall Street,” said Republican senator Jim Banks of Indiana in a video clip titled “The new GOP is the party of the working class” a couple weeks ago, “and the new Republican Party that focuses more on Main Street and working-class families.” That party, Banks said, “has to recognize that those mechanics, factory workers like my dad and members of my family, teachers, police officers, people who go to work and make an...
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Liza Featherstone

In 2024, even in blue areas likecoastal Massachusetts, fishing boats were festooned with Trump flags. Conspiraciesabout the elite agenda of the environmental movement run rampant in fishing communities,and fishermen don’t tend to feel that government is on their side. They hopedTrump would make their lives better by easing regulations. Instead, he’sbrought chaos and uncertainty to an already challenged industry.
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Liza Featherstone

In 2024, even in blue areas like coastal Massachusetts, fishing boats were festooned with Trump flags. Conspiracies about the elite agenda of the environmental movement run rampant in fishing communities, and fishermen don’t tend to feel that government is on their side. They hoped Trump would make their lives better by easing regulations. Instead, he’s brought chaos and uncertainty to an already challenged industry.
Zohran Mamdani Is Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Liza Featherstone

If anyone needed a compelling argument for why New York City is in desperate need of socialist governance, the city’s real estate elites and the political class they own gave one last week. The Rent Guidelines Board, whose members are appointed by the mayor, voted on April 30 to consider drastic rent increases on at least one million rent-stabilized apartments.
Kamala Harris 2028? Hard Pass.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Liza Featherstone

Kamala Harris has emerged from her den, apparently refreshed. Last week, she delivered a winsome keynote at a benefit gala in San Francisco, then made a surprise appearance at the Met Gala, the party of the year for New York City high society, and this week headlined a closed-door benefit for the Democratic National Committee. She reportedly will decide by the end of the summer whether to run for California governor.
Kamala Harris 2028? Hard Pass.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Liza Featherstone

Kamala Harris has emerged from her den, apparently refreshed. Last week, she delivered a winsome keynote at a benefit gala in San Francisco, then made a surprise appearance at the Met Gala, the party of the year for New York City high society, and this week headlined a closed-door benefit for the Democratic National Committee. She reportedly will decide by the end of the summer whether to run for California governor.
Zohran Mamdani Is Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York

1 month ago | portside.org | Liza Featherstone

Zohran Mamdani Is Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York Published May 7, 2025 If anyone needed a compelling argument for why New York City is in desperate need of socialist governance, the city’s real estate elites and the political class they own gave one last week. The Rent Guidelines Board, whose members are appointed by the mayor, voted on April 30 to consider drastic rent increases on at least one million rent-stabilized apartments.