Harry’s special roundtable this week focuses on the fortunes of the Democratic Party. Three top political thinkers—Micah Lasher, Amanda Litman, and Michael Steele—assess Democrats’ prospects in the midterms and 2028. They break down what the party needs to do—beyond opposing Trump—and how it can harness the energy and message of recent progressive successes without falling victim to intra-party division. Finally, they offer their ideas for the longer-term vision of the country that the Democrats should stand for.

Micah Lasher knows that establishment Democrats have a problem. The case made by party moderates is “neither sufficiently exciting nor credible to get people to believe in it, with all that the word connotes,” the New York Assemblyman wrote in a recent essay.

Mr. Lasher, the likely successor to Representative Jerry Nadler, has an unusual back story: As a teenager, he was a prodigy who performed magic tricks on national television.

Mr. Lasher, the chosen successor of Representative Jerrold Nadler, beat a field of Democratic candidates that included a fellow state assemblyman in a race for a coveted open seat.

Micah Lasher spoke to crowd of supporters after winning the Democratic nomination for New York’s 12th Congressional District, a seat currently held by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY). Rep. Nadler and Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) spoke before Lasher addressed the crowd, offering their support for his campaign. 

In a Democratic primary for a coveted House seat in Manhattan, Micah Lasher is betting long experience can prevail despite anti-establishment headwinds.

Assemblyman Micah Lasher is a born and raised Upper West Sider. And as such, he has some very strong opinions about the many gems his neighborhood has to offer, from the best place to pick up a whitefish salad to the finest tennis courts the United States has to offer. 

As early voting approaches, Micah Lasher shares his West Side Story — part of a series with six of the candidates running to replace Jerry Nadler for New York’s 12th Congressional District ahead of the June 23 primary.

The New York Editorial Board’s interview with Assembly Member Micah Lasher, a Manhattan Democrat running for Congress in New York’s 12th District.

The race for New York’s Twelfth District keeps getting more interesting.

Lasher has been posting videos at anti-ICE protests and interviews with Minnesota lawmakers opposed to President Donald Trump’s deportation policies and learning about ICE resistance tactics.

Lasher said the concept is based on a theory known as “converse 1983.” It maintains that federal officials should be liable in state courts should they violate federal civil rights laws, just as Section 1983 of the federal code made state and local officials liable in federal court should they violate those statues.

The first out gay member of the state Legislature is throwing her support behind Nadler’s protégé.

If a bill that state Assemblymember Micah Lasher and state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez have introduced is passed, corporate spending on elections would come to an end.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate just handed Donald Trump’s GOP a great gift: an end to the government shutdown that had, just days before, been a key factor driving Republican election losses across the country. In other words, Democrats saved Republicans from themselves — and did so without winning anything in return that could be explained, clearly, to the American people.

Assembly Member Micah Lasher racked up another big-name endorsement Thursday morning when New York City Comptroller-elect Mark Levine endorsed Lasher in the increasingly crowded Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District.

Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal and New York City Council Members Gale Brewer and Shaun Abreu endorsed the Assembly member’s bid to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler.

Micah Lasher, who currently represents the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights in Assembly District 69, formally announced his campaign on Monday to succeed Rep. Jerrold Nadler in Congress.

They describe him as a one-time wunderkind turned whip-smart West Side political guru — and an overall mensch who’s helped just about everyone worth their salt in New York politics from behind the scenes.

Assemblymember Micah Lasher and Sen. Mike Gianaris want to allow mid-decade redistricting as Texas lawmakers move to do the same.