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Hooray! Voters bless a rollback of the City Council’s power to block affordable housing

The passage of four ballot proposals delivered a well-deserved slap to the New York's City Council and will great help create more lower-cost housing...

Now violence-wishing pols win, it’s still ‘the economy, stupid’ and other commentary

“There was a time when suggesting that your opponents should watch their children die would have automatically cost you an election,” recalls Slate’s Molly...

Let Andrew Cuomo’s latest farewell be his last one, too

It boggles the mind to consider that Andrew Cuomo managed to squeeze a second failed resurrection out of the embers of his first attempted...

The Most Terrifying Words in the English Language

Says the next mayor of New York, ‘We will prove that there is no problem to large for government to solve and no concern...

Convenient Theories About the Elections

The editors of Tablet magazine suggest that Republicans helped the Democrats win by spending the last week acting like ‘cackling maniacs.’

‘Not happening’: Trump’s personal plea to kill filibuster falls short among Senate Republicans

President Trump's passionate push for Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster as a way to end the shutdown and pass GOP priorities swayed some senators, but not nearly enough.

Election wins give Democrats new swagger, reveal Americans’ economic angst and dissatisfaction

Democrats' sweep of the off-year elections this week gave the party renewed vigor for battling President Trump and confidence that the victories are a springboard for the 2026 midterm campaigns.

In Miami, Trump says he will make ‘America affordable again’

President Trump aimed to paint the economy in a good light as he spoke at the American Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday.

Trump admin notches fewest border encounters with unauthorized migrants in record October

Homeland Security said Wednesday that it has just completed its sixth straight month without catching and releasing any illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border.

Virginia voters push back hard on Trump administration efforts to reshape federal government

Not everyone who voted in Northern Virginia in Tuesday's election has felt the impact of President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape the federal government, but even many who haven't said they have colleagues or neighbors who are dealing with the consequences.

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