This week, Reason editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson to analyze Zohran Mamdani’s primary win over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race and what it signals about the future of Democratic politics. They also discuss the Senate GOP’s version of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful […]
There are a lot of reasons why Zohran Mamdani surged to a surprise victory in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor. His opponent was former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a tired, old, corrupt, creepy symbol of the feckless Democratic establishment. The cost of living and, in particular, housing, in New York […]
Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary partly on his plan to open five city-owned grocery stores—one in each of New York’s boroughs. The idea is as absurd as it sounds, but it’s a useful lens through which to view another government-run institution we’ve accepted for far too long: the public school system. […]
Is Eric Adams actually a good orator? “This is a city not of socialism,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a speech yesterday, referring to his challenger Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the Democratic primary. “I’ve been to socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as a dishwasher and you […]
For many New Yorkers, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not an exciting prospect. The likely winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary—the votes aren’t all counted yet, though the outcome is now a foregone conclusion—is a democratic socialist who subscribes to a whole host of city-ruining political positions. He would like to dismantle New York City’s selective school […]
U.S. Steel isn’t just getting nationalized. It’s getting…personalized? President Donald Trump will personally control the so-called “golden share” that his administration has forced U.S. Steel to accept as part of the terms of a deal that will see the previously private company get acquired by Japan-based Nippon Steel. It’s an utterly absurd arrangement—one that will […]
Does Zohran Mamdani’s win have implications for other Dems? “Nearly 20 incumbent House Democrats who are either running for reelection or haven’t announced their 2026 plans are facing at least one primary challenger,” reports Axios. Democrats across the nation and in Congress in particular are trying to figure out whether to read socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New […]
Andrew Cuomo has conceded defeat to 33-year-old progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. With registered Democrats making up over two-thirds of the city’s electorate, Mamdani is in pole position to be the Big Apple’s next mayor, which could spell trouble for New Yorkers struggling with the city’s nation-leading cost of […]
Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York Democratic Mayoral Primary on Tuesday puts the self-proclaimed socialist one step closer to enacting his far-ranging left-wing agenda. At the top of the candidate’s list, as Reason‘s Liz Wolfe covered this morning, is his call to freeze rents on New York’s roughly one million rent-stabilized housing units. […]
Zohran Mamdani is the presumed winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary:Â Technically, ranked-choice votes will take a week to fully tabulate, with the final results being declared on July 1, but second-place Andrew Cuomo has formally conceded to his opponent. Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist who advocates a rent freeze, hiking taxes on […]