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Ross Barkan
@RossBarkan
My new novel is COLOSSUS. Read GLASS CENTURY, too. @NYMag columnist, contributor to @TheNation and elsewhere. Editor-in-Chief of @the_met_review
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    Ross Barkan
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    Feb 9
    My new novel, COLOSSUS, is a "challenging portrait of a thoroughly modern man.ā€ You should get it.
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    Ross Barkan
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    Nov 5, 2025
    Jon, I was with you. You told me you didn't submit any RSVP. You probably should've?
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    Jon Levine
    @LevineJonathan
    Nov 5, 2025
    I was not allowed into Mamdani's event (for obvious reasons) — but Al-Jazeera was standing behind me and I overheard them crowing that "we had no trouble getting in — they like us"
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    May 7, 2020
    Andrew Cuomo's approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there's little the government did well to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Nov 23, 2020
    Sort of remarkable George W. Bush created a massive and problematic federal agency out of thin air and Democrats just agreed it would exist forever
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Apr 14, 2025
    Wesleyan, Princeton, and now Harvard refusing to capitulate to Trump really makes Columbia look quite bad. A disturbing lack of credibility from one of the world's great universities.
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    Ross Barkan
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    Sep 28, 2021
    COVID-19 cases have now declined 33% nationally from 14 days ago. There's little coverage of this, which doesn't surprise me. Good news doesn't drive the media.
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Oct 18, 2025
    The idea you can absolutely check out civically if a Democrat becomes president is one of the more ludicrous out there
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    George Conway āš–ļøšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
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    Oct 18, 2025
    #NoKings
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Apr 11, 2020
    The former head of the CDC told the New York Times up to 80 percent of the deaths in New York could have been averted if Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio reacted sooner to COVID-19. Over 8,000 are now dead. Liberals cling to the fantasy it's all Trump's fault.
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Feb 27, 2021
    Thinking about how we wouldn't need an Andrew Cuomo reckoning if prestige media and elite pundits just reported on him accurately in the first place
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Jun 25, 2025
    Zohran also wore a suit and tie everywhere
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    Matt Stoller
    @matthewstoller
    Jun 25, 2025
    The things that Zohran Mamdani didn't do to pander to young people are (1) curse for no reason (2) talk about hiphop groups from the 1990s (3) push crypto.
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    Ross Barkan
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    Jan 20, 2020
    The New York Times didn't think Bernie Sanders, who raised nearly $100 million in 2019 and now polls second nationally, was even a *top four* candidate worth considering for their endorsement. What a newspaper
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Jul 6, 2025
    This in a way is a secret weapon for Zohran, and why a lot of conservatives are sputtering about right now. You can yell out "Muslim!" or "Socialist!" or "African!" and his response, with a smile, is "yup."
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    Michael Tracey
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    Jul 4, 2025
    It's funny how Mamdani actually is what the hallucinogenic Right always accused Obama of being: actually Muslim, actually born in Africa, actually a socialist
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Feb 15, 2019
    Here's the deal. NYC is not in desperate need of jobs. Unemployment is low. If you are reasonably healthy, you can get a job. NYC needs affordable housing and a functioning transit system. This is what Amazon's defenders do not get.
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    Ross Barkan
    @RossBarkan
    Nov 5, 2025
    Replying to @LevineJonathan
    One HQ had a much bigger press list! You literally stood with me and talked about how you hadn't rsvped and you'd just wing it. If you had submitted by the deadline, you would've been in. Fox was there, FP was there, I was interviewed by the NY Post there...
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