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Being mayor of New York City is often described as the second toughest job in America. And for good reason. Because it’s not ...

While Mamdani, 34, earned nearly 51% of the vote over 49% of voters cast their ballots against the mayor-elect, ...

“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration ...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the names of 10 allegedly undocumented people arrested as part of ...

As Donald Trump’s GOP grows more and more fanatically xenophobic and rabidly anti-socialist, it’s worth examining how the ...

Look for wild vote count fluctuation for days after polls close. Counteroffensives include an executive order by President ...

Fifty years ago, Sweden attempted the most ambitious democratic transition to socialism ever. Its architect, a Jewish ...

The president will continue to cause uncertainty both nationally and internationally next year, Jon Talton writes, while Seattle will bring in a new mayor with a different agenda from her ...

The Astoria apartment — which has quietly attracted interest from potential tenants for the past few weeks — is now ...

President Donald Trump's geopolitical ambitions have almost been harder to follow than his other policies, encompassing as they have the annexation of Greenland, the conversion of Canada into the 51st ...