Even if you loathe Bernie Sanders, you will adore this phenomenal and utterly charming 500-plus page love letter to the state of Vermont and its people. Superbly written—Chiasson is a Wellesley College English professor and a well-known poet—it is also immersively researched, since Chiasson, who’s now 55, grew up in Burlington during the 1980s when
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Zohran Mamdani’s tax on second homes is likely to drive the biggest contributors out of New York (@NYCMayor X) New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, posed on Manhattan’s Central Park South on Wednesday and gleefully announced his plan to tax pied-à-terres worth over $5 million. In a slickly produced video, he bragged that he’s
Nearly three-fourths of the copies Newsom sold around the time he landed on the list came from his campaign Gavin Newsom (Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images) The New York Times placed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) on its coveted Best Sellers list even as it acknowledged that Newsom used campaign-funded “bulk sales” to sell tens of thousands
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