I Went Door-to-Door With Zohran Canvassers. What People Said Surprised Me.

I Went Door-to-Door With Zohran Canvassers. What People Said Surprised Me.

It made me appreciate how messy, fluid, and emotional American politics is.

The limits of Zohran Mamdani's TikTok politics

You could, with crass simplification, write the history of New York in three phases, beginning with the patronage of the Tammany Hall machine, which ran the city from the mid-19th century to the early 1960s. After that came the gratifying, though sometimes ruinously abstract appeals to the conscience of New York’s left-liberal, mostly Jewish political establishment. This period began with the Jewish mayor Ed Koch in 1969 – with conservative deto…

Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’

Noa YachotSun 26 Oct 2025 13.00 GMTShare Securing Jewish votes was never going to be a straightforward ride for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral hopeful who is on track to become the most prominent Palestine supporter to assume elected office in the US – in the most Jewish city outside Israel, no less. The…