https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/opinion/nyc-election-primary-avila-chevalier-lander-valdez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.slA.cJRL.dL6pNn0sa2ox&smid=re-nytopinion

>> The question is what lessons leftists have learned from the past dismal decade. As both candidate and mayor, Mamdani has usually embodied a practical, optimistic sort of left politics — a sewer socialism — laser focused on New Yorkers’ material concerns. Avila Chevalier represents something different, an academic leftism rigid in its refusal to accept trade-offs or make concessions to ordinary people’s moral intuitions. One approach is a recipe for building, the other for backlash. The danger is that a movement flush with success may think it doesn’t have to choose. <<

As always, Michelle Goldberg is worth reading.

#USPolitics #Democrats #MichelleGoldberg #AvilaChevalier

#MichelleGoldberg hits another home run in her deep explorations of the fascist right in today’s @newyorktimes Gift article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk8.lXLl.pKFWPhewvIXd&smid=url-share

—> The Beat ⦁ #MSNBC <—

Trump’s #Epstein Crisis
leaves Trail of Deals, broken Vows & GOP Secrecy

The New York Times’ #MichelleGoldberg
joins MSNBC’s #AriMelber to discuss
how the #JeffreyEpstein Scandal continues to haunt President #Trump

#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/JisSAm8f8Xc

https://mastodon.social/@66gardeners/114518037151974711

I believe that Biden was one of the better presidents of the last few decades, that any self styled "progressive" voter who either abstained or voted for a third party candidate deserves blame, that the US media in general and the NYT in particular should focus more on Trump's unfitness for office, and that the Trump regime is a right wing authoritarian horror.

I also believe that effective opposition to Trump and his supporters requires -- amongst many other things -- frank discussion of the shortcomings of the Biden candidacy last year, and that to lambast Michelle Goldberg as "complicit in fascism" does not advance this discussion and is grossly unfair to a thoughtful progressive journalist.

#USPolitics #JoeBiden #DonaldTrump #USJournalism #MichelleGoldberg #NewYorkTimes #Democrats

Poet Jorie Graham Calls On Hollywood To Resist Censorship And Distribute ‘The Apprentice’ Film
#Culture #Politics #DonaldTrump #JorieGraham #MichelleGoldberg #NYTimes #TheApprentice

https://deadline.com/2024/06/poet-jorie-graham-hollywood-support-the-apprentice-film-1235974617/

from #NewYorkTimes [gift article expires in 30 days]
- Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. #Columbia Obliged. -
By #MichelleGoldberg
Opinion Columnist

#Gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #SolidarityWithPalestine #EndUSAidToIsrael #FoodAsWeapon #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #Israel #StopArmingIsrael #DefendColumbiaProtesters
#news #press @israel @palestine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/columbia-antisemitism-hearing.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.lk0.XCGy.FDuy06GMgmKR&smid=url-share

The first of two articles I saw today which everybody on the left in North America, the UK, and other western countries should read and ponder.

Opinion | The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opinion/columnists/israel-gaza-massacre-left.html

#PalestineIsrael #Gaza #DSA #MichelleGoldberg