Calder McHugh

I wrote about the civility mania sweeping elite college admissions for @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…

Hunter Biden's @Channel5iveNews interview evinced his alternate history of 2024. It's full of contradictions. For Nightly: politico.com/newsletters/po…

Getting pretty serious about our softball over here (we have one win via forfeit)

“Mike Lee is far-right,” said one emeritus general authority. “The church is not far-right.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

What @elonmusk needs for a new party to succeed: disruptive ideas My riff for Nightly this evening: politico.com/newsletters/po…

This map is incredible for several reasons, one that it suggests that people who actually take the subway aren’t nearly as scared of it as those who don’t.

10 years after marriage equality, Jim Obergefell is still struggling to move on from the grief of losing his husband — and America is still struggling to move on from anti-LGBT politics. I wrote about his ongoing fight for LGBT rights in @POLITICOMag: politico.com/news/magazine/…

My riff tonight: America's mighty political dynasties are crumbling in the age of political disruption Clinton, Bush, Cheney, Kennedy, Daley, Casey, Murphy, Pryor, Laxalt, Landrieu, Graham, Carter, Pryor and more And now Cuomo politico.com/news/magazine/…

indeed, Kathy Wylde told me she tried to calm the nerves of her anxious corporate members on today's call by reminding them only the state can raise taxes. Wylde finds @ZohranKMamdani "smart" & believes the biz world's fears are partly from unfamiliarity: ebx.sh/JSQjCz

upper manhattan, harlem, central bk strength especially impressive - transcends what other left candidates have managed

If Cuomo's mayoral bid goes down, it will contradict what the former governor has long insisted: While he lost the politicians, he never lost the support of the people. This time, Cuomo is losing the people after cajoling the most powerful people in New York to back a comeback