By 3 p.m. Tuesday, New York voters had already surpassed the turnout of any mayoral election since 2001, casting 1.4 million votes. Volunteers and advocates say the best thing to do today is celebrate, rest—then keep organizing.
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America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
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The Anti-Mamdani Editorials, Considered
Perhaps the most recurrent theme in the major newspapers’ criticism was that Mamdani’s proposed 2 percent tax hike on that share of a taxpayer’s yearly income that exceeds $1 million would lead to mass millionaire flight from New York.
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The 2025 Election’s Hudson River Divide
Through the campaigns of Zohran Mamdani and Mikie Sherrill, we can see a path that tenuously unites both social democrats and moderates. Future Democratic electoral successes will rest on a foundation of progressive economic populism.
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Just Plain Everyday American Socialism
Socialist programs that come from non-socialists, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s low-cost insulin production program, don’t arouse the same level of right-wing hysteria. They also don’t arouse the same level of left-wing enthusiasm.
Posted inEconomic Policy
More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism
Last year, financier Scott Bessent excoriated the Biden administration for its revival of industrial policy. Now as Trump’s Treasury secretary, he the government would be expanding investments in companies in crucial economic sectors.
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Mamdani: Son of La Guardia and FDR
Zohran Mamdani delivered a major speech to lay out the stakes in the upcoming mayoral election. To the historically sentient, the speech was replete with echoes of New York’s previous progressive heroes—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and A. Philip Randolph.
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The Damaged Democratic Brand
More successful economic populists within the Democratic Party can help other Democrats revive their brand with an appeal that rouses voters.
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The Rift in American Socialism
As Election Day draws near in New York City, entire genres of attack-pieces against Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani have emerged. Today’s New York Times, for instance, contains a long analysis of just how much some of Mamdani’s proposals will cost, though equivalent dollar estimates of how much they will boost the city’s economy are […]
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The Socialist Case for Antitrust
The modern antitrust movement, sometimes called the neo-Brandeisians after the former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, had a major influence on the Biden administration. Now that Donald Trump has returned to power, what’s next? Over at the new publication The Argument, Matt Bruenig has a critical review of what he calls the urtext of the modern antitrust […]