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 ...

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 ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleMay 2025 See all stories → Zohran Mamdani’s Path to Victory Under Trump 2.0, Most Black Americans Have Nowhere to Run Veterans Hospitals Face Massive Layoffs CUNY Faculty ...

The blowback from the 2018 contract fiasco arrived three years later when Hoffa Jr. retired and his hand-picked successors lost by a nearly 2-1 margin to a reform slate led by Sean O’Brien. A longtime ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleTwenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that rule New York City and even the ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleOn Dec. 11, over a dozen NYU students and faculty dropped flyers and hung banners throughout the Bobst Library while 13 people sat in on the administrative floor of ...

In her acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris promised new investments in the care economy, support for workers rights, reproductive ...

This year’s midterm elections saw the much-anticipated Republican “red wave” turn into a red trickle in most of the country with one glaring exception: bright blue New York. President Joe Biden won ...

In the past year, Elsa Martinez has seen utility bills from New York energy monopoly Con Edison soar to as much as $300 per month. The costs seemed inexplicable to Martinez, a disabled Harlem resident ...

An inquiry into the Scarcella prosecutors’ track records likely would reveal patterns of police misconduct habitually condoned by the DA’s office. It would almost certainly show that Scarcella was not ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleBarnard College, the liberal-arts women’s college of Columbia University, is facing criticism for new policies that restrict the freedom of speech and limit student protest ...