The Long Arc of Immigrant Power in New York

Waleed Shahid Waleed's Substack
What Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech shares with the Irish ward bosses and Jewish socialists who built the city’s first immigrant-powered coalitions.

The Multipolarism of Fools

John Feffer TomDispatch
Don’t be fooled by autocrats championing sovereignty. As a bloc of mostly authoritarian, eco-unfriendly, and socio-economically conservative countries, BRICS represents the multipolarism of fools.

Mamdani’s Plan for NYC Could Be a Model for How To Transform Child Care

Simon Black The Conversation
Of all of Mamdani’s campaign commitments, free high-quality child care for every New Yorker from 6 weeks to 5 years old – while boosting child care workers’ wages to match that of the city’s public school teachers – could be the most transformative.

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