Zohran Mamdani shares similarities with London’s mayor, but has found support on a more radical ticket

Guardian US writer Adam Gabbatt and columnist Mehdi Hasan explore how Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani came from nowhere to the brink of becoming mayor of New York City

Zohran Mamdani shares similarities with London’s mayor, but has found support on a more radical ticket

The 34-year-old state assemblyman from Queens has risen from obscurity to national prominence with a bold, left-wing platform.

How his public intellectual parents shaped the new New York mayor’s politics has been a persistent line of inquiry on the campaign trail

Progressive socialist Mamdani has stormed to victory in New York City mayoral race

Sadiq Khan, Zack Polanski and Zarah Sultana among figures on the left praising the mayor-elect as they look at potential blueprint for elections in UK

Zohran Mamdani is following in the footsteps of another mayor of a global city with an outsize reputation for a diverse economic and cultural life.

Sadiq Khan said New Yorkers had shunned ‘fear’ by voting for the Democrat to be the city mayor

Sadiq Khan says: ‘We are united by something far more fundamental, our belief in the power of politics to change people’s lives for the better’

It was at a small family dinner when the then 28-year old Zohran Mamdani told Ruchira Gupta that he wanted to go into electoral politics. Six years on, he has been elected mayor…

The New York mayor-elect sells a political message further to the left than any American politician has dared to in recent memory, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians

As a former New Yorker, I found Zohran Mamdani’s great political upset on Tuesday remarkable. But the 34-year-old recent Muslim immigrant from Uganda with Indian roots did not do…

The racist abuse that Zohran Mamdani is still facing proves how normalized bigotry is. We need to keep calling it out

The passionately inclusive politics of the newly-elected New York mayor have clear echoes in boundary-breaking movies such as Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding