Ross Barkan, columnist for The Guardian and contributor to The Nation, talks about how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to slash Medicare funding in the state before Coronavirus.
We welcome journalist Ross Barkan to the show, who has an article up at The Nation, “Cuomo Helped Get New York Into This Mess,” that tells the real backstory of Andrew Cuomo, and how his austerity policies helped lead to the disaster currently unfolding in New York.
It was certainly a Super Tuesday for former vice president Joe Biden. Ross Barkan, columnist with The Guardian, joins us to discuss the results.
Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as the front-runner heading into Tuesday night’s democratic debate. Ross Barkan, columnist at The Guardian, joins Cheddar to discuss what to expect on the stage.
31-year-old Public Defender Tiffany Caban ran an AOC-style grassroots campaign calling for an end to mass incarceration and radical reform to the prosecutor’s office
New Yorkers thought marijuana might be legal in the state by now, why the hold up?
Ross Barkan, a 29-year-old local political journalist who ran unsuccessfully for State Senate in his native Bay Ridge last fall, told me he aggressively courted DSA’s endorsement as “one of the very few groups anywhere that can put a lot of bodies on the ground.”
On Nov. 14, former Democratic candidate for state Senate Ross Barkan, his staff and Bay Ridge residents officially opened Solidarity Space, a hub designed to cater to community organizations, artists, workshops, lectures, politics and “whatever else the community can dream up.”
A former Democratic candidate for state senate in Southern Brooklyn refuses to let his primary loss earlier this year stop the progressive political movement from ending.
Two political rookies take on the 2018 Primary Elections. Follow Ross Barkan in his race for State Senate and Adina Miles (aka Flatbush Girl) in her race for District Leader all the way up to the election results.