Lexi McMenamin

Progressive candidate Elisa Crespo wants to guarantee a job for every New Yorker
By Lexi McMenamin
The Bronx has long been a hotbed for political tensions, and this last year was no different. The New York City borough got slammed by coronavirus, and it still has the highest positive testing rate in the city. While wealth flushes into Manhattan,…
How cars became a deadly anti-protest weapon
By Lexi McMenamin
Kelley Cruse-Nicholson was driving home on an early September evening when she noticed Black Lives Matter protesters weaving through the streets of Richmond, Indiana. Cruse-Nicholson, a city councilmember and lifelong Richmond resident, decided to…
Can the Gravel Institute compete with the right-wing YouTube machine?
By Lexi McMenamin
Last year, a pair of plucky teenagers ran a presidential campaign for former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. Gravel, then 89, handed over the reins of his campaign to the two teens, Henry Williams and David Oks, in exchange for a commitment that they would…
"Why you have to gun him down?": Walter Wallace Jr.'s killing rocks Philadelphia
By Lexi McMenamin
WEST PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—On Monday, Philadelphia police shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black father, in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia. While it is not totally clear what led to the confrontation, Wallace was…