The former president had an obvious reason to favor the Democratic frontrunner in the New York mayor’s race with a weekend call, writes Corinna Barnard. Mamdani is winning.
In New York City, the battle has been joined between Democratic Party elites and the voters they are increasingly committed to suppressing, between money and democratic process, between power and the forces for change.
Kshama Sawant weighs her fellow democratic socialist’s triumph in the New York City mayoral primary and the obstacles to fulfilling his campaign promises he could face if he gets into office.
By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners.