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Politics Is Something We Do

By: Eric Blanc; Bhaskar Sunkara

The hard part is over. The harder part is about to start.

Illustration by Rose Wong

Even with a couple of weeks’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But it’s happening: America’s largest city is about to be led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). For many of us on the […]

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Even with a couple of weeks’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But it’s happening: America’s largest city is about to be led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). For many of us on the […]

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Even with a couple of weeks’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But it’s happening: America’s largest city is about to be led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). For many of us on the […]

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Even with a couple of weeks’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But it’s happening: America’s largest city is about to be led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). For many of us on the […]