For those of us in the trenches of X, the meltdown was a familiar sight, echoing the contempt that the tech elite have directed at San Francisco for years, with the endless lamentations of anarchy at pharmacy branches in Union Square or the liberal policies of politicians like Aaron Peskin.

Voters say they’d prefer that someone other than Hochul be governor, but they’ll still vote for her over her likely competition in both a general and primary.

Whether former Gov. Andrew Cuomo or Assembly Member Zohran Mamdami wins the June 24 primary, a rematch is possible in November.

Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and that's raising alarms among some in the New York's Jewish community.

It's a scorcher in New York City. On Tuesday, June 24, as residents of the five boroughs headed to the polls to cast their ballots in what promises to be a unique primary election, heat radiated off the concrete.

A seasoned veteran of Chicago politics once told me that it often takes Democrats a couple of four-year cycles out of office before they can pull their fractious factions together into a winning