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The night Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, I was at a dinner gathering of fair housing and tenants’ rights advocates in

In early October Sinn Féin, one of the parties supporting Catherine Connolly’s bid for the presidency of Ireland, posted a clip of her playing ball in the

The situation in which we find ourselves at the beginning of Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World is familiar, from life and in fiction: He had come back in

In an age when all of planning discourse has been reduced to a choice between YIMBY and NIMBY , Zohran

Ever since the late 1980s, when a Supreme Court ruling and resulting revised city charter essentially remade New York City’s government in the hope of

In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani vowed to put forward “the most ambitious agenda” New York City had seen since the administration of Fiorello La

“It was a brilliant operation, actually. ” So claimed Donald Trump early this morning in a phone call with The New York Times about the US military’s

On November 14 the Guardian reported, on the basis of internal military documents, that the United States was “planning for the long-term division of

Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation

There is a steeliness to Zohran Mamdani that wasn’t obvious when he first appeared as a candidate for mayor, ablaze with ideas while extending a panoramic

Climate policy didn’t feature much in this mayoral election, possibly because much of the exciting legislation necessary to start moving New York toward a

Zohran Mamdani has introduced several changes to American politics—joining ideological maximalism to policy minimalism, crafting a winning political

In less suspenseful years a mayoral election in New York City would be a purely local event, but in precarious 2025 it was a national and even

On the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 2023, as the last days of Ramadan drew to an end, I went to have iftar with my extended family in Omdurman, across