Explaining the New York Post to anyone who is not from New York is always difficult. This left-leaning city has a daily newspaper that is owned by a right-wing media tycoon and this newspaper’s politics, generally, aren’t aligning with the 68 percent of New Yorkers who voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. This newspaper, despite its proud conservatism, boasts one of the most popular news websites in the city—or anywhere. Its print edition is widely available in neighborhood supermarkets and bodegas. Politicians in both parties take it very seriously, and it has the power to almost single-handedly drive news cycles. If it would be an overstatement to say the Post made Eric Adams mayor, it certainly didn’t hurt him that the brawling, British-style tabloid decided to endorse him and behave, for many months, as his propaganda organ.
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