Zohran Mamdani’s win is a template for Democratic revival The New York mayor-elect married socioeconomic policies and message discipline to moral clarity. Democrats should apply the same principles going forward Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race is more than an improbable municipal election win; it is a template for Democratic revival, one that can marry socioeconomic policies and message discipline to unambiguous moral clarity. I first interviewed Mamdani shortly after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris left the Democratic Party in tatters. Already a declared candidate, the unabashed democratic socialist spoke with hyperfixation on affordability and the need to reorient the Democratic Party away from Wall Street and toward the working class. I interviewed Mamdani multiple times over the next year, including amid a surge of Islamophobic attacks in the final weeks of the mayoral campaign.

As the Senate advances a plan to end the government shutdown, what happens now? As the ongoing government shutdown was poised to begin in late September, three members of the Senate Democratic conference — Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Maine’s Angus King — broke party ranks and voted with the Republican majority to prevent the breakdown. That gave GOP leaders 55 votes, five short of the 60-vote threshold. At that point, the Republican plan, in a nutshell, could be summarized in one word: wait.