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Zohran Mamdani Is Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
With local and national elites indifferent to working-class struggles over the costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and more, socialist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani is finding success by putting affordability at the heart of his campaign.

A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs

Tom Nichols The Atlantic
The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

Christopher Hill, Pioneer of History From Below

Raphael Magarik Jacobin
Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, he recovered the history of vanquished radicals like the Levellers and the Diggers and linked them to our own time.

This Week in People’s History, May 7–13, 2025

Portside
Cartoon of Herbert Hoover staring glumly at the ashes of John Parker's Supreme Court nomination A Racist, Anti-Worker Judge? Not This Year (1930), Curtains for Smallpox (1980), Covid Kills Jobs, Too (2020), The Road to Revolution (1775), A Bad, Bad, Day in Augusta (1970), Even a King’s Word Is Not Law (1215), Red-Baiters Go Home! (1960)
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