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Consultants Weigh In on State Budget Battle
Errol Louis discussed his interview with the mayor and the state budget battle with the “Consultants Corner”: Republicans Jake Menges and Tom Doherty, and Democrats L. Joy Williams and Evan Thies....
Consultants Corner: De Blasio’s Trip and GOP Fight
Errol Louis analyzed Mayor de Blasio’s trip to Staten Island, the growing calls for the Republican Party to have a contested mayoral primary....
Trump and O’Reilly; Telling Women to Shut Up and Take it
Donald Trump, the man who openly boasted about grabbing women by the “pussy” and somehow became President, celebrated Sexual Assault Awareness Month by supporting another serial predator, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly....
Cuomo’s liberal budget moves
Gov. Cuomo used the state budget process to go shopping for the liberal credentials he’ll need to run for president, Albany insiders said. As the Assembly on Saturday began passing the bills to implement the state’s late and ...
A celebration for Dems? Not so fast.
Trump is as low as it gets in polls. Federal judges have blocked the travel ban (again). The White House’s Russia problems seemingly have no end....
De Blasio’s Smooth Ride?
Will Mayor de Blasio have a smooth ride to re-election? After City Councilman Eric Ulrich announced he will not run for mayor, Josh Robin discussed de Blasio’s campaign with the Monday Consultants Corner: Democrats Bill Hyers and ...
Firing Preet Bharara is Not ‘draining the swamp’
The firing of Preet Bharara, celebrated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, after he refused to resign surprised many —...
Consultants say Bharara is well-positioned
“Sky’s the limit for him. Democrats are desperately searching for a hero right now and he’s smartly stepped into that void,” said Lis Smith, a Democratic consultant. “Hard to see much in the way of downsides in this fight.”...
MSNBC: Consultants weigh in: Preet Bharara fired
Preet Bharara fired after refusing to resign...
Busting up Tech’s Bad-Boy Culture
“high performers” have free rein to sexually harass their female subordinates.Uber’s response tells us as much about the corrosive bro culture in too many workplaces as the allegations themselves....
Bill de Blasio’s ‘Vision’ Shrinks
The ambitions of Mr. de Blasio’s progressive government, once richly grandiose in his promises to unite a city starkly divided along economic lines, have become grounded – both by the stark realities of governance, and politics....
Why I’m marching against Donald Trump
I’m going to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. because I woke up on Nov. 9 unable to feel anything. I think my brain shut down so I could perform basic functions without passing out from the total realization of what ...
De Blasio Welcomes Cuomo’s Progressive Shift
In his State of the State address Monday, Cuomo laid out a series of proposals, from free college tuition to a childcare tax credit increase, that he says will help the state’s middle class and poor residents while maintaining ...
De Blasio Finds Success Elsewhere
high-level departures from health and human services departments....
Post-Election Landscape
Host Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives....
Post-Debate Fallout; Campaign Sexism
Host Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives....
How Donald Trump and Billy Bush abet assault
I was in high school when a man grabbed my vagina on the subway. My younger brother started screaming, but I was so startled it took me a beat before shoving him off.....
Scrutinizing Trump’s stance on immigration
Robert Traynham, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Evan Thies discuss Donald Trump’s speech to families impacted by crimes committed by undocumented immigrants....
Hillary Clinton, national mother?
Indeed, Clinton doesn’t look like the last 43 Presidents (44 if you count Grover Cleveland twice), but it’s not just because she’s a woman: Hillary Clinton is running for President as a national mom. That is a radical twist on what has ...
Developers must change approach
A city-backed project in Inwood was shot down by the City Council last month because of local concerns over density and displacement, despite it promising a healthy amount of badly needed affordable housing. Now, similar projects in ...
Real estate industry; Cuomo-De Blasio war
Cuomo and de Blasio go back at least two decades. The governor was de Blasio’s boss in the late 1990s when Cuomo served as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration....
Consultants Evaluate Legislative Session
Josh Robin wrapped up the end of the legislative session in Albany with Democratic strategists Alexis Grenell & James Freedland and Republicans Leticia Remauro & Jonathan Greenspun…....
Tech start-ups find scorched-earth strategy can backfire
Imagine someone walks in to your home uninvited, tracks dirt on your floors, eats your food, pockets the silverware and rearranges your furniture. You ask, “What do you think you’re doing?” They answer: “Disrupting.”...
How Hillary Earns Men’s Scorn
Bernie Sanders has repeatedly challenged Hillary Clinton to release her Goldman Sachs transcripts, stirring intrigue about three speeches for which she earned a total of $675,000. Although Sanders’ point is that Clinton is too ...
