“There’s been a great forgetting,” former FTC Chair and Mamdani transition co-Chair Lina Khan tells Jon Stewart. She says one of her “key areas of focus” is identifying long-dormant powers so the new administration actually understands the full set of tools the mayor already has

It's such an indictment of the status quo that two literal CHILDREN built a searchable database of affordable housing because the grownups who run the government didn't think to do it nytimes.com/2025/11/14/rea…

National progressive groups are privately circulating talking points on why they think Sen. Chris Van Hollen should be the next Senate Minority Leader, I’m told. (No Senate Dem has called for Schumer to step down from leadership, though several liberal groups & House Dems have.)

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy): deadline.com/2025/11/pope-l…

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) on recent elections in NYC and Virginia: “Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t win a governor’s race in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger probably wouldn’t win the mayor’s office in New York. Maybe the lesson for Democrats is stop trying to decide what one figure

New economic impact analysis of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail (a.k.a. New Haven to Northampton Canal Greenway) by Cambridge Econometrics shows the FCHT generating more than $1 million per mile per year in overall economic activity 👇🏻 greenwaysolutions.org/n-s-report

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. nytimes.com/2025/11/18/cli…

Donald Trump agreeing with the Democratic Socialist Mayor of NYC that we need more YIMBYism is on so many levels of I didn’t have this on my bingo card I think I ought to give up the ol’ bingo game all together

These images are almost exactly a year apart

Culver City becomes the first California city to allow [again] six-story apartment buildings with just one staircase. 🪜up to 6-floors 📐4,000sf max floor plates

Trolleys in New Haven on Yale-Harvard Game Day, circa 1940

Great single-stair building type graphics from Cedar. They are gearing up to unleash tons of small multi-family projects in the Austin market.

When I was at Zohran Mamdani's rallies, and the crowd can do a call-and-response of his top policies — freeze the rent, make buses fast and free, make child care free — the only other time I’ve heard that, where people are able to call back the signature policy, is with President

Today I signed our new housing bill into law—another step toward making Connecticut a place where everyone has access to safe, affordable, quality housing. Proud of the bipartisan work that got us here.

We must stop tinkering around the edges of a broken healthcare system. Yes, let's extend the ACA tax credits to prevent a huge spike in healthcare costs for millions. Then, let's finally create a system that puts your health over corporate profits. We need Medicare for All.