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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams rejoins the podcast to talk about his primary run against Kathy Hochul, the party’s poor performance in November from candidates running as “Republicans light” and much more.

Sandwichstravaganza

By the time breakfast was ready, he was hysterical and I was deranged.

Many races have boiled down to the personalities running for office, rather than their policies.

Some people self-care with a massage or a spa day. Me? I find the nearest Ethiopian restaurant.

The fallen crypto mastermind was announced as a speaker at The New York Times’s conference weeks before his multi-billion-dollar empire crumbled, but he hasn’t been taken off the list for the event — yet.

Or How to Render Metaphysics in Film

The final printed-on-paper edition of a magazine inserted into a newspaper.

Marlene Dumas at the Venice Biennale.

The Taipei mayoral race saw twelve candidates this year. The three serious candidates are, of course, Chen Shih-chung of the DPP, Chiang Wan-an of the KMT, and Vivian Huang of the TPP. It remains unclear as to which of them may win, with a tight three-way race anticipated. At the same time, as the nation’s capital, Taipei often attracts a number of fringe mayoral candidates. This was no different this year, with the views of these candidates on display at the four-hour policy platform held by the Central Election Commission, in which all of the candidates were given thirty minutes to express their views

Forbes estimated that the trust through which Gaston Glock controls his company was worth $1.5 billion.

The Conservative Partnership Institute saw its funding balloon with more than $45 million in donations last year as it spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud.

My atheism turned into agnosticism not by reading a religious text or visiting a holy temple, but by watching a YouTube video of Carl Sagan explaining the fourth dimension.