Brad Lander

Protesters disrupt vigil as NYC mayor defends controversial Israel rhetoric

NEW YORK — The Israeli prime minister delivered a fiery UN speech on Thursday assailing enemies and allies alike

Lander, a critic of the Israeli government who identifies as a liberal Zionist, was welcomed by some protesting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Saturday remarks in New York City

Joe Gruters, a former Florida state senator and longtime ally of President Donald Trump who has led the RNC since August 2025, will deliver the remarks Monday evening at the Republican Jewish Coalition's National Leadership Summit at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas

The shift has become a lightning rod for Republicans, who are aggressively branding Democrats as communists

Democratic House candidate Brad Lander recently ousted an incumbent member of Congress in a Democratic primary where opposition to Israel played a major role

With President Trump’s second term in full swing and the midterm election four months away, a new kind of Democratic candidate is ascendant: the outsider vowing to overhaul the system

Come 2028, when New York officials hope to redraw those three seats along with the rest of the state’s congressional boundaries, Jeffries would be one of the people influencing the process

House Democrats were staggered Wednesday by the loss of yet another one of their longtime colleagues to a democratic socialist challenger

The proposal flew in the face of his own 2025 campaign pledge to keep police staffing flat

The Pennsylvania Democrat singled out congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier, calling her "deeply disturbed."

Regardless of which party wins control of Congress in November, New York City voters have all but ensured that next year a vocal bloc of new House Democrats will arrive on Capitol Hill, elected, in large part, because they believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza

Last year, former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City

In a Newsmax interview Wednesday, Blakeman called Lander, who won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York’s 10th Congressional District, antisemitic

American politics, reordered and reimagined by a decade of President Trump's rise, fall and resurrection, is imploding in substantial ways

This time around, the Democratic Socialists of America knocked on more than 700,000 doors in a demonstration of the progressive group’s organizing prowess and appeal to ever more New Yorkers, suggesting a tectonic shift in the political landscape both in New York City and beyond

The Democratic Socialists of America is reportedly looking for the 2028 face of their party after emerging as a major political player Tuesday evening with two of their candidates winning competitive primaries in New York City

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates

Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) lost his House primary to former New York City comptroller Brad Lander (D)

Mayor Mamdani’s decision to brand AIPAC ‘monsters’ and accuse the organization of using ‘dark money’ to ‘turn us against one another’ in order to preserve a ‘status quo of immorality’ is not criticism of lobbying

Plus, Henry J. Gomez reports on an Elon Musk-related controversy in Michigan’s battleground Senate race

Scandal-free, two-term incumbent representatives who maintain a community presence, stay out of the national media spotlight and vote nearly entirely in line with their party rarely see bruising challenges from among their own ranks

Plus, Henry J. Gomez reports on an Elon Musk-related controversy in Michigan’s battleground Senate race

NYC coffee shop bans pro-Israel congressman who bought a drink: ‘See how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice?

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his recent verbal broadsides against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday, pushing back against prominent Jewish leaders who have accused him of trafficking in antisemitic rhetoric

Primarily, Biden was speaking about the election victories of three Democratic socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

The mesmerizing turnout machine that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani to victory is AWOL this Election Day

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani appears to confirm Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding date and location

AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, has made its presence felt in one heated New York City Democratic primary campaign, even though it hasn't spent any money on the race

Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in New York's 10th congressional district, explains his support for other New York candidates — but stops short of endorsing them

One person bit a police officer and punched a second one after the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the N.B.A. finals

Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander was acquitted Thursday of criminal charges related to his arrest last September at a protest inside a building that houses one of New York City's immigration courts

The proposal would remove constitutional restrictions that currently limit mid-decade congressional redistricting and would allow the state Legislature to approve new congressional maps with a simple majority vote in 2028

A super PAC created as a counterweight to powerful pro-Israel advocacy groups has pledged to spend $2 million in New York to support a pair of candidates challenging Democratic House incumbents from the left and a third progressive Democrat running for an open seat

The race has become a test of whether left‑leaning candidates can translate grassroots enthusiasm into wins over well‑known incumbents

As the six-person group of documentarians and journalists joined Mamdani in City Hall, they were tasked with making some of the least sexy parts of municipal government — the sanitation department, rats, rent guidelines — resonate with New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is sparking backlash after using his first veto to derail a bipartisan bill aimed at combating antisemitism by expanding protest security safeguards for places of education

United States Senator Bernie Sanders has promised to advance a resolution to block bombs and bulldozers to Israel, testing support for the US ally in Congress amid the war with Iran

Top ICE official quietly sent memo to clarify agency’s arrest policy after months of chaos in courthouse hallways

ACLU considering next steps after court ruling

Opposition to the U.S.-Israel joint attack on Iran was broad and swift, powered in part by Trump Derangement Syndrome — if he’s behind it, they’re reliably against it — and also tinged with antisemitism

Former New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams sounded off against his successor, Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and politicians on both fringes of the political spectrum for their knee-jerk reaction to the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran

An Iranian-American Democrat has condemned the party for their hand-wringing following Donald Trump's attack on Iran

Former New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams sounded off against his successor, Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and politicians on both fringes of the political spectrum for their knee-jerk reaction to the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani assailed what he called a “catastrophic escalation” in Iran, some Iranian Americans worried about what comes next, while others celebrated

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani assailed what he called a “catastrophic escalation” in Iran, some Iranian Americans worried about what comes next, while others celebrated