A propos - Is New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani the future of US Democrats?

A propos - Is New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani the future of US Democrats?

With a rent freeze, free buses, and universal healthcare among his hugely popular campaign promises, Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to frontrunner in the New York mayoral election has been propelled by a package of radical policy proposals. We ask Lindsey Cormack, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Stevens Institute of Techonolgy, whether US Democrats should model their campaigns on Mamdani's.

Can Democrats learn to put substance over style?

We just had another messaging masterclass with political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on whether Democrats and progressives have had the reckoning promised after the 2024 elections. That’s mostly a no: the party’s still confusing style with substance, evident in how the argument over Graham Platner’s tattoos reveals an ongoing fetish for working-class aesthetics over actually solving problems. But on the other hand, Bernie and AOC are making the cas…

The Democrats’ crisis of trust

Midterm season is on the horizon — and Democrats have little to be optimistic about.  In the most recent favorability polls, the Democratic Party scored an abysmal 34.7% favorable and 59.0% unfavorable rating, which marked lower favorability than both President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.  Amid the Democrats’ steadily declining numbers, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in New York City, the world’s economic capital, has surged into n…