Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Do More Than Survive
A democratic socialist will be inaugurated mayor tomorrow because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.
Our greatness will be anything but abstract. It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month knowing the amount they’re going to pay hasn’t soared since the month before. It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for, and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of childcare didn’t send them to Long Island.


A democratic socialist will be inaugurated mayor tomorrow because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.
Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power.
From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power.
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.









