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Ted and Caroline anointed Barack Obama as the candidate best qualified to carry on the JFK legacy. But to live up to it, he has to put it in the past.

The City Council speaker’s unusual political identity—gay, female, with a good-government pedigree and a ward heeler’s instincts—makes her a strong mayoral candidate. But now her rivals have something to throw.

What the congestion-pricing debate tells us about city politics after Bloomberg

Sex wasn’t the only clandestine activity Eliot Spitzer loved.

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Can a billionaire Democrat turned Republican turned independent mayor of New York be elected president of the United States? The mayor himself isn’t sure. But Kevin Sheekey is.

On the campaign trail, Rudy Giuliani at this point relies less on his 9/11 reputation than he does on the premise that he single-handedly saved millions of otherwise doomed New Yorkers in the nineties. It’s insulting to the city, of course—but what may be more relevant to other American voters is that it’s just not true.

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