Opinion | Is Mr. Trump Nuts? (Published 2018)

Just pointing out that all of this has come up before. What is obvious now was also obvious back then. www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/o...

The triumph of congestion pricing also offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives. Many Americans have grown cynical of government, and they are right to be disappointed about its frequent failure to deliver results in the 21st century. But the answer cannot be allowing the private market and pursuit of profits to dominate American life. Leaders should instead take political risks, as officials in New York did, to create programs that can deliver tangible results.

That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

CENTER PLANS REVIVED; Queens Group Wants Project Built Over Sunnyside Yards (Published 1951)

A very early mention of decking the Sunnyside yards. Which says it had been discussed for 25 years prior to that. A century of indecision. So I remain hopeful but skeptical. www.nytimes.com/1951/05/20/a...

Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?

“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says the union president. But it should matter to Gov. Hochul, who will need every spare MTA dollar.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Opinion | Mamdani and Cuomo Debated Housing Policy, but Both Need to Think Bigger New York has urgent housing needs. Mamdani is leading the race for mayor because of his awareness of this. But all the candidates should have bigger plans.

Urgent issues like New York City’s worsening housing crisis “have gotten far less attention than they deserve in the New York mayoral race,” Mara Gay writes. “Addressing the crisis will require every big idea and drop of political capital the next mayor can muster.”

How appropriate that one of the worst mayors we’ve ever had should endorse one of the worst governors.

These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

One of the most baldly racist statements ever written by a modern U.S. government official: "The sharp increase in diversity has reduced the level of social trust” essential for democracy. Only refugees who can "fully and appropriately assimilate" should be let in. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Opinion | Some Democrats Panicked Over Mamdani. Obama Called Him.

Great scoop by @maragay.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Just watched David Firestone’s chilling interview w @nicollewallace.bsky.social. This whole piece is a must read. 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started Art can be effective at illuminating and healing only if it is unconstrained by authority.

For President Trump, “denying entire chapters of American history is as easy as denying last month’s jobs numbers, and it is no less dangerous to the nation’s understanding of itself,” David Firestone writes.

Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started

New op-ed: The Trump administration has made an aggressive effort to rewrite not only its own history but also that of the United States, especially as it is documented in its official museums and cultural artifacts. No shameful narratives are allowed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

We put together a very visual and mobile-friendly look at how videos shot by people on smarthpones have become a defining way that the public is seeing Trump's immigration crack down.

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Scene from a low-tax state:

Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need A stint on THE CITY’s investigations team capped a career exposing the corrupt and the criminal on behalf of tenants, workers and incarcerated people.

There is no one post or piece that can capture the force that was @tommyrobb.bsky.social, but my colleagues and I at @thecity.nyc did our best. Thank you, Tom, for your relentless focus on leaving the world better than you found it, knowing It’s not only possible to change things, but imperative.

Opinion | The Justices Can’t Avoid Trump’s Blow Against the Constitution

New post: As much as Trump's lawyer tried to change the subject, the brazen unconstitutionality of the birthright citizenship order was impossible to ignore at the Supreme Court on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Opinion | Behind Miller’s Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus Is the Fact That They’re Losing

Desperate to deport more immigrants without hearings, the White House is furious that federal judges have blocked all their flimsy legal justifications. Now Trump and Miller want to up the ante by suspending habeas corpus, but that's likely to fail, too. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Opinion | The Texas Alien Enemies Act Ruling Is Important A Trump appointee in Texas cares more about the history of what Trump is trying to do with the Alien Enemies Act than the president does.

New post: Stephen Miller thought he found a way to deport immigrants by claiming Venezuela had invaded the U.S. A federal judge -- Trump's first Latino judicial appointment, back in 2017 -- ruled that there's no invasion going on, demolishing this flimsy pretext. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Opinion | A Mistake in a New York Court Exposes the Truth About Trump’s Legal Strategy The episode of the inadvertent court filings in the New York congestion-pricing case embodies the full range of the Trump administration’s incompetence.

New blog post: Which is more astonishing, the rank incompetence of the Trump administration, or the dishonesty revealed by its many mistakes? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

In a single day, Wisconsin voters showed how to beat Trumpism (and Muskism) on a practical level, and Cory Booker showed how on an emotional and moral level. That's the combination Democrats will have to repeat many times over as they begin to take on this fight.

Opinion | Wisconsin Voters Have a Huge Opportunity to Brush Back Trump and Musk Are the mass of voters really worked up about this administration’s actions? Tuesday night may provide some answers.

New post at NYT Opinion: Musk has given Wisconsin voters precisely the caricature of a clueless, cheesy billionaire that Democrats could have wished. But tonight we'll find out whether that's enough. Is the mass of voters angry yet about Trump's first 70 days? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

Thanks, Anne.

Opinion | Elise Stefanik Is the First Casualty of the Great Trump Disillusionment Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration’s excesses, but Elise Stefanik’s pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.

New blog post: Her years of sycophancy discarded in an instant, Elise Stefanik is now paying the price for her dear leader's excesses and incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Opinion | Those Are Definitely ‘War Plans’ in The Atlantic’s Group Chat Story

New blog post: The administration's definition of "operational security" means lying, sneering, and stonewalling to change the clear nature of reality. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

The Trump White House doesn't care about free speech, the NYT editorial board writes. It prioritizes far-right ideology — celebrating lies and hate speech — "while simultaneously trying to silence independent thought, inconvenient truths and voices of dissent."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Opinion | Refusing to Carry Out Trump’s Flagrantly Dishonest Orders The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government.

The corrupt Adams deal "is the clearest example yet of this administration’s efforts to bake quid-pro-quo dealmaking, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government," the NYT editorial board writes. Adams must go. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...

Opinion | Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him The president is challenging the constitutional order.

Scholars can argue about a constitutional crisis, the NYT editorial board writes, but what's clear is that Trump's actions "are a frontal assault on the laws and norms that underpin American government — by the very people who are meant to execute the law." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Test of the Constitution Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.

NYT editorial on Trump's arrogation of power: He "is testing Washington and the American people to see how far he can go in accumulating authority and in marginalizing anyone in a position to question his actions. It is a test the Constitution cannot afford to lose." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

It was the worst thing that Donald Trump did on an awful day, and only one major newspaper condemned it in an editorial.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

By granting clemency to every rioter, Trump is proclaiming that violence is a perfectly legitimate form of political expression and that no price need be paid by those who seek to disrupt a sacred constitutional transfer of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...