Ross Barkan
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Founder and Writer at Political Currents
My new novel, GLASS CENTURY, is out now. Contributing writer, @NYTMag. @NYMag columnist. Editor-in-Chief of @the_met_review
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2 days ago |
rosselliotbarkan.com | Ross Barkan
Four years ago, when I had many fewer readers, I wrote an essay about the fading of the liberal left in New York City. I always felt ambivalent about what I had written because, in the years since, I wasn’t sure how true it would turn out to be. It certainly seemed true to me during the 2021 citywide Democratic primaries in New York.
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3 days ago |
nymag.com | Ross Barkan
How long will John Fetterman last in the United States Senate? That is, above everything else, the operative question right now. Since suffering a stroke in 2022, Fetterman's mental and physical health has deteriorated, according to his current and former staffers. He routinely misses votes and doesn't appear to be performing his basic Senate duties.
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4 days ago |
crainsnewyork.com | Ross Barkan
As the Democratic primary for mayor grinds to its conclusion, at least one reality is quite clear: Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner and he’s got the city’s elites behind him. The donor list to Cuomo’s super PAC, Fix the City, which has raised nearly $11 million, reads as a who’s who of New York’s movers and shakers. Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge funder who has risen to prominence as a fierce defender of both Donald Trump and the State of Israel, cut a check for $250,000.
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5 days ago |
nymag.com | Ross Barkan
Andrew Cuomo is the heavy favorite to be elected New York City's next mayor. But the primary, with less than one month to go, is not quite over yet. The former governor, who resigned in disgrace in 2021, led the Democratic field with 35 percent of first-place votes, according to the latest Emerson poll. In second was Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist.
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1 week ago |
nymag.com | Ross Barkan
It is easy to understand the populist case against Harvard. The elite Ivy League university holds an endowment worth more than $50 billion. For centuries, the richest, most powerful, and influential human beings on earth have gone to school there. Like other major educational institutions, Harvard does not pay taxes - and there's an argument that local and federal governments should get much tougher with them.
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I am trying to imagine Chinese Americans, for example, getting subjected to the same creepy loyalty tests as American Jews. A bunch of Democratic and Republican hawks demanding they affirm their support for Xi and the Chinese govt, always. "It's the Chinese state!!"
RT @freddiejh8: “Biden’s staff lied with a cultish fervent in order to keep the fiction alive that this man was fit to lead for another fou…
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