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Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats

Waleed Shahid Jacobin
Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.