Zohran Mamdani leads in NYC Democratic primary, early results show

A Progressive Perspective: Zohan Mamdani wins NYC Mayor primary

There is a strong likelihood that Zohan Mamdani, a self-professed democratic socialist, will be NYC’s first Muslim and first Indian American mayor.  Mamdani’s stunning victory in the Democratic primary was unexpected. The vast majority of the polls showed Mamdani finishing second to centrist Andrew Cuomo by double digits. CNN characterized the victory as a “political earthquake,” and others termed it the “biggest upset in modern NYC history.” Th…

Bret Stephens: Mamdani for mayor (if you want a foil for Republicans)

Two groups must be especially thrilled by the prospect of Zohran Mamdani becoming New York’s next mayor. The first: young, progressive-leaning voters who gave the charismatic 33-year-old state Assembly member his come-out-of-nowhere victory in last month’s Democratic primary. They want what he wants: rent freezes, free public buses, city-owned grocery stores, tax hikes for corporations and millionaires, curbs on the police, a near doubling of th…

Why many Asian American Trump voters chose Zohran Mamdani in NYC's primary

An analysis of election districts won by Trump in 2024 and Mamdani in this year’s primary shows many feature a majority of Asian American residents.

Hopeful highs and electoral lows

True change won’t come from the ballot but from sustained, people-powered movements ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Two recent developments have jolted voters out of despair on both sides of the Atlantic: Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, and Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she will leave Labour to launch a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Think-pieces will spring up about how these insurgents will finally listen to wor…

Learning from our failures to counter the DSA

The results of NYC’s Democratic primary have landed like a gut punch to those of us who have dedicated significant time and energy in opposition to Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members on the City Council. Two of the most visible and ideologically rigid, Alexa Avilés and Shahana Hanif, cruised to victory in Brooklyn despite well-organized and well-financed efforts to oust them. As painful as it is obvious, we learned the hard way that …

NYC Democrats back ‘communist lunatic’ for mayor - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

It’s difficult to determine who was more enthusiastic about the results of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last week, the party’s progressive extremists or national Republicans.