As The Indypendent reported this spring, pro-Israel donors sought to unseat Brooklyn councilwomen Alexa Avilés, a DSA member, ...

Election Day, I followed the street signs, the “Vote Zohran!” chalk, the pamphlets, the smiling neighbors playing his ads on ...

They said it couldn’t be done. And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than… ...

Long before he became the breakout star in this year’s NYC mayoral race, Mamdani appeared regularly in the pages of The Indy and on our Tuesday evening news and public affairs show on WBAI-99.5 FM.

In From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary, Carol Mason, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, draws a through line that ...

While imprisoned in ICE custody, Marcial Morales Garcia helped lead a wave of hunger strikes in New Jersey jails where guards refuse to wear masks, rats run wild and toilets are often the only source ...

And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than 400,000 New Yorkers voted early and Zohran Mamdani led by 9 points. The Election Day surge of support for Andrew Cuomo never ...

Surrounded by honking cars and chants of “ICE out of New York,” a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan to protest the detention of immigrants and a shifting ...

“It tore a hole through the fabric of our community,” said a faculty member at CUNY-Brooklyn College, where the police crackdown occurred.

The Indypendent’s Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton has led our local political coverage since 2017 as the left has steadily gained a foothold in New York electoral politics for the first time in decades.

Author Barbara Stark-Nemon’s new book, Isabela’s Way, follows 14-year-old Isabela de Castro Nunez as she flees her Portuguese hometown. Eleanor J. Bader Jun 11 In an author’s note introducing the ...

A 30-foot tripod erected in front of the Forest Service’s regional headquarters brought mid-day traffic in downtown Portland to… ...