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Dan Janison

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Bible or no Bible, will Trump keep his oath?

21.01.2025 3

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Intrigue in an Adams-Blakeman schmooze

16.01.2025 3

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Adams, Cuomo have started sniping

For this upcoming election cycle in New York City, the hype is building for a potential intraparty rivalry between Democratic Mayor Eric Adams and...

08.01.2025 3

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The New York GOP's new chance for relevance

In December 2022, Rep. Lee Zeldin of Shirley, coming off a solid showing for governor, voiced what sounded like a sensible strategy for a renewed...

02.01.2025 2

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Adams' favorites disgraced the NYPD in 2024

Even before Eric Adams became New York City’s mayor three tumultuous years ago, suspicion stalked the political world that his penchant for...

26.12.2024 2

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Trump should offer pardons and apologies

Donald Trump has long promised that once he returned to the presidency, he will pardon people convicted of crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol...

19.12.2024 4

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Confusion on latest Trump pick no-go

Less than a month since Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump’s selections for his second administration seem to be generating more separate...

05.12.2024 4

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Loyalty emerges as Trump's litmus test

The news that President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general — to get the Justice Department under the...

14.11.2024 4

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Trump-Kennedy mystery again

Even the most bizarre little moments of national history can repeat themselves in the chaotic public world of the new president-elect, Donald...

07.11.2024 3

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Will Bannon return to the MAGA circle?

Possibly the biggest news of this preelection week for the Trump administration-in-waiting was the release from prison of Steve Bannon. Bannon,...

31.10.2024 2

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Intrigue ends as Turkish cleric dies

Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who preached tolerance, died this week at age 83 in a Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania...

25.10.2024 2

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Vance cuts a path for his own future

Suddenly this season, the vice-presidency became a very big deal. In a first-ever postprimary switch, President Joe Biden yielded the top slot on...

03.10.2024 2

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Nassau and NYC nepotism? No kidding!

In the context of national politics with control of the House of Representatives at stake, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s reportedly placing an ex-...

26.09.2024 5

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LI Republicans ride the Trump train

Even after being voted out of the presidency nearly four years ago, Donald Trump managed to keep control of the national Republican Party and claim...

20.09.2024 1

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Cuomo's political future still cloudy

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday provided a dramatic forum for the most bitter public exchanges of blame for...

11.09.2024 1

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Global intrigue in LIer's influence case

For the past few years, the Justice Department has brought and prosecuted a number of New York-based cases that allege illegal activities...

05.09.2024 1

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Rocky road of high finance, low politics

Political players whose separate fates will lead them to be charged with grifting sometimes find each other along the way and team up. If the...

29.08.2024 30

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DNC joy signals down-ballot relief

Not two months ago, millions of Americans saw what looked like the whole national election quickly slipping away from the Democrats. On June 27,...

23.08.2024 1

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Dems bring the mock to Trump in Chicago

Stand in front of the Sheraton Grand Chicago River Walk Hotel where New York’s Democratic National Convention delegates are staying this week and...

22.08.2024 1

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Suozzi takes stage, Santos exits right

The fates of political careers can align in strange ways. Just two days after former Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty to corruption charges, Rep....

20.08.2024 1

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Will Harris bring continuity or change?

In the 1988 presidential election, Vice President George H.W. Bush won after repeatedly intoning, "Stay the course." That was taken to mean the...

14.08.2024 1

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Assessing Walz, Harris and the rule of law

The rule of law — and what it truly means in 2024 — figures to define a key portion of the presidential race. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the new...

07.08.2024 2

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Uneasy lie those who serve Donald Trump

Promoters of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a proposed conservative agenda aimed explicitly at the next Republican presidential...

01.08.2024 2

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Harris without Biden is a down-ballot mystery

One big strategic question in Republican-run Long Island and Democratic-run New York State is whether Vice President Kamala Harris’ fill-in...

24.07.2024 1

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Vance offers zeal of a MAGA convert

When Republican Party nominee Donald Trump picked Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a notably devout Christian, as his running mate in 2016, it marked an...

17.07.2024 3

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Pelosi's enigmatic message on Biden

All the suspense, angst and drama of an unpredictable national race is focused now on the Democratic camp, seemingly to the advantage of...

11.07.2024 2

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