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Where The (Potential) Voters Are: Subway Edition
Registering to vote in New York's Union Square subway station (photo by Andrea Bernstein)Looking to register more voters in New York City? Take out your MetroCard.That's what a coalition of nonprofits...
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Explainer: The Supreme Court, Voting Rights and New York
Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx are all covered by the Voting Rights Act - which might surprise you. Here's what today's Supreme Court decision means for the city.What is the Voting Rights Act?A...
View ArticleWhat's Joe Lhota's Path?
Now that we know the matchup for November's mayoral election, can Republican Joe Lhota actually win in deep blue New York City? Reihan Salam, senior fellow at R Street, contributor to The National...
View ArticleSlate: The All the People Who Are Happier Than You Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The latest from the Presidential race, Voter ID laws, and political happiness
View ArticleHow the First African American Governor, Grandson of Slaves, Got Elected
In 1981, Charles Robb asked L. Douglas Wilder, the state's only African American State Senator, to help rally voters of color to support the Democratic ticket for governor. Just four years later, Doug...
View ArticleNew York Officials See Spike in Problems at the Polls
The office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said it is getting hundreds more reports than usual about problems at polling sites.As of Tuesday evening, the Attorney General's hotline...
View ArticleHow to Be a Better (NYC) Voter
The New York City Board of Elections refers to the presidential election as the “Super Bowl” of election days. That’s because all eyes are watching. The board has already been under a high level of...
View ArticleTrump Razes Voter Fraud Commission But 'This is Certainly Not Over'
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentPresident Trump, who claimed without evidence that millions voted illegally during the 2016 election, made a seemingly abrupt decision on...
View ArticleLatino Leadership On Family Separation: Can it Awaken the 'Sleeping Giant'?
Latino leaders in Congress have been on the front lines of the fight against family separation. But what can they accomplish as a minority within a minority party and should it even be on them in the...
View ArticleAs Government Rushes to Reunify Separated Families, Questions Remain About...
Today, is the deadline the U.S. government set for family reunification, after implementing the family separation policy of “zero tolerance.” We take a look at where the government is in terms of...
View ArticleWhy Don't More Americans Vote?
On this week that marks the 53rd anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, The Takeaway looks at what it was meant to do, the state of voting rights across the country, and why so many...
View ArticleElection Security: How Vulnerable are Voting Machines to Hacking?
With the midterms right around the corner, The Takeaway has an in-depth look at the state of election security. A former government intelligence analyst weighs in on the vulnerabilities and potential...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: So You Want to Run for Office? Bring Cash.
Today on Politics with Amy Walter, we follow the money in the 2018 midterm elections. Where is it all coming from? And what is it doing to our democracy? The big money is spent on competitive races -...
View ArticleWhy Don't More Americans Vote?
Who chooses to vote in the United States and why? Political scientist David Nickerson joins us to discuss the research that shows why so many Americans steer clear of the polls on election...
View ArticleWhy Don't More Americans Vote?
On the week that marked the 53rd anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, The Takeaway explored what it was meant to do, the state of voting rights across the country, and why so many...
View ArticleFeds Demand Voting Records, and North Carolina Officials Fight Back
The federal prosecutor in North Carolina’s Eastern District, who is a Trump appointee, issued sweeping subpoenas in the last week of August for voting records across his district, on behalf of...
View ArticlePostcards to Voters Are 'Resistance for Introverts'
It’s the day before the New York state primaries, and if you’re a registered Democrat, you might find something a little different in your mailbox. Not those glossy, full-color filers from the...
View ArticleCalling All Poll Workers: City's Board of Elections Still Staffing Up for...
The midterm elections are 15 days away and the New York City Board of Elections is still recruiting workers to staff the polls on Nov. 6. The Board of Elections is staffing up with around 34,000...
View ArticleSome Absentee Ballots Don't Fit in Envelopes, Board of Elections Says
New Yorkers who head to the polls on Nov. 6 will get a two-page, double-sided ballot. It's the first time there's been multiple-page ballots since New York switched to a paper system in 2010. But in a...
View ArticleNearly 200,000 Voters Have New Polling Sites Compared to Last Year
Nearly 200,000 voters at 89 polling places across the city have been assigned to new locations since the general election last year, according to the city Board of Elections and a WNYC analysis of...
View ArticleVolunteer Canvassers Get Celebrity Sendoff from Hamilton Creator Lin Manuel...
Broadway sensation Lin-Manuel Miranda is getting behind efforts to to flip the House blue.Droves of progressive New York City residents headed to swing districts in the area over the weekend to canvass...
View ArticleJournalists Should be in 'Emergency' Mode
For Jay Rosen, media critic and author of PressThink, Joe Biden and Donald Trump's dueling town halls this week summed up a problem news organizations have failed to address since the 2016 election:...
View ArticleThe Harm of Spanish-Language Disinformation 2021-12-09
The Harm of Spanish-Language Disinformation In 2020, Latinx voters registered and voted in record numbers, now making them the second largest voting bloc in the U.S. Many of these voters are being...
View ArticleThe Past, Present and Future Of The Biden Administration
This week marks a year since president Joe Biden has been sworn in as our country’s 46th president. You're not alone if you feel like it happened more than 365 days ago. We saw more people getting...
View ArticleRepublicans in New York City
New York, NY —Republicans in New York City are used to being outnumbered. They make up only 13 percent of the city's registered voters. And even with the arrival of next week's Republican Convention...
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