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A spokesperson for Robert Caro just confirmed Bill Moyers never did come around and agree to speak to him. Alas.

"It's in our DNA. I gotta catch myself from time to time," Curtis Sliwa said of...being anti-semitic

Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, said she pleaded with the campaign to visit a mosque. “That was a very big thing,” she said. “They told me he was scheduled to go to the mosque, and then I found out he didn’t. I was not too happy.”

“Among other possible efforts now in the works is a ‘big push’ to create an independent expenditure committee backed by real estate executives and other donors to boost Adams’ campaign, according to one consultant familiar with the matter.” jewishinsider.com/2025/06/eric-a…

NEW: Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and 32BJ, which backed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary and Eric Adams in 2021, are preparing to endorse Zohran Kwame Mamdani, sources tell Nick Reisman and me. Story coming momentarily.

NEW: Reverend Al Sharpton all but calls on Andrew Cuomo not to run for mayor in the general. Between that, his 12-point loss, Zohran Kwame Mamdani cleaning up with unions, businesses seeming to align behind Mayor Eric Adams, it seems over. muckrack.com/broadcast/save… muckrack.com/broadcast/save…

BREAKING Jewish Insider via Marc Rod: "Ritchie Torres says he’s likely passing on New York gubernatorial run" "The congressman once again declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race but said he is ‘likely to win’" jewishinsider.com/2025/07/ritchi…

Two Jewish therapists in Dallas say they were fired for calling out antisemitism in the workplace. Now they've sued their ex-employer, alleging discrimination & retaliation. My latest, in the never-ending story of antisemitism in the mental health field: jewishinsider.com/2025/07/jewish…

New: The latest Democratic primary battle between the left and center where Israel has emerged as a point of division is playing out in a special House election in Tucson later this month, as five candidates vie to replace the late Rep. Raul Grijalva jewishinsider.com/2025/07/adelit…

Inside Syria's death factory: Assad's regime carried out industrial-scale torture and executions that killed tens of thousands over more than a decade. "The worst atrocity of the 21st century" in terms of government involvement. Jared Malsin Hamza Bonduk wsj.com/world/middle-e…

This week will be pivotal for the future of PBS and NPR, as the Senate plans to vote on ~$1.1 billion in funding. I spoke to station directors in South Dakota and Alaska about what this could mean: nytimes.com/2025/07/14/bus…

House Dem leader Jeffries says that Mamdani’s defense of the ‘globalize the Intifada’ slogan will be part of his discussion with Mamdani this week. Mamdani needs “to reassure” the Jewish community and others “that he’s going to stand up for their safety and security.”

Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, according to people briefed on the discussions. w/ Henry Foy & max seddon. ft.com/content/b66f03…

Trump is finally taking the fight to Putin. Sort of. For now But the change is not reflective of Trump adopting a new worldview. He did not develop a fondness for Ukraine. He did not become a believer in transatlantic alliances Rather, he got insulted theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

New: Nadler faces blowback from Jewish leaders for his Mamdani outreach jewishinsider.com/2025/07/jerry-…

Not that long ago, the conventional wisdom in politics was that the some of the best candidate you could recruit were local TV news anchors. In the digital age, are social media influencers going to be the sought after candidates? politico.com/news/magazine/…

Mike Waltz laid out an aggressive approach to countering anti-Israel sentiment at the U.N. during his Senate confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to the global body, accusing the organization of “pervasive antisemitism.” Matthew Kassel reports: ji.news/3xzvg

I've worked around for newspapers for more than 40 years and reading them for 15 before that and I have never seen anything like this: The NYT letting most of its critics go in one fell swoop without replacements. variety.com/2025/tv/news/n…

New: Zohran Kwame Mamdani is expected to clarify his position on the use of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’ politi.co/4nVo6LG via POLITICO

NEW In a meeting with over 100 prominent New York business leaders, including some billionaires, Zohran Mamdani said he would discourage the use of “globalize the intifada,” but not the idea behind it, which he sees as protest against the Israeli occupation of Gaza. Full