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Bang the drum slowly, play the fife lowly
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The Failure of Government
Eric Adams and the metrics
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Jann Wenner and the Problem with Poptimism
The music discourse boils over
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Will These Women Run Against Eric Adams?
Christine Quinn and Jessica Ramos float their trial balloons
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The Death of ESPN?
What a cable war means
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Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear
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Where Democrats Lost
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Eric Adams and the Weapon of Identity
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What the YIMBYs Never Understand
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Why is the NYPD So Powerful?
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9/11 Is History Now
The leaves that are green turn to brown
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Apocalyptic Eric
Why does the Mayor of New York think New York is doomed?
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Hakeem Jeffries Counts His Votes
What an endorsement of Ilhan Omar means
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Barkan's Briefly Noted
Here are some books to keep an eye on
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The Subtle Humbling of James Dolan
A 5-year permit for Madison Square Garden is everything he didn't want
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Will the MTA Sabotage Congestion Pricing?
The problem with double-tolling
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The New Republican Foreign Policy
Neither fascist nor trustworthy
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