Mamdani’s critics have launched a smear campaign that ignores that police pose an existential threat to victims—and all of us.
Group geared at mobilizing young leftist candidates saw record sign-up after Mamdani’s NYC victory. Mamdani bump blends excitement about the candidate, interest in leftist policies and zeal for shoe-leather campaigning, both on the ground and online.
This is our race. Who’s the we in “our”? Anyone who feels that we the people have to find a way wrest control of the economic future of this country from the likes of Trump, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, all of the billionaires.
If politics is ultimately about communicating in appealing ways, Mamdani is charting a new way forward for the digital era by the deliberate fusion of personal appeals with substantive ones.
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If Mamdani becomes mayor, he’ll have the chance to prove something few American socialists have ever gotten close enough to power to demonstrate: that progressive values aren’t just compatible with effective governance—they’re strengthened by it.
It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.
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