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 ...

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made national headlines earlier this year when they barnstormed the western ...

Zohran turned out historic numbers in traditionally progressive areas and then expanded his coalition by overperforming — and ...

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

From frigid winter days when their candidate was polling in the low single digits to the final sweltering ...

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

For Zohran Mamdani’s army of door-to-door canvassers, each shift brought new chances to connect with their fellow New Yorkers. Persuading voters to support their candidate was the goal. But for many ...

As The Indypendent reported this spring, pro-Israel donors sought to unseat Brooklyn councilwomen Alexa Avilés, a DSA member, and Shahana Hanif, a progressive Muslim. On June 24, voters in adjoining ...

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

Despite his dubious track record, retired Brooklyn detective Louis Scarcella relishes the spotlight. He is always dapper, physically fit and ready to spar. Yet last week at the Brooklyn courthouse, ...