Forget the medium and focus on the New York City mayor-elect’s message – centrists can’t compete with rent freezes, free buses and support for Palestine, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy

Charismatic and relatable, the 34-year old energized voters – and provided a blueprint for other progressives to follow

Desde su carisma y su dominio de las redes sociales hasta su mensaje enfocado en la asequibilidad, el socialista logró lo que pocos políticos han alcanzado en los últimos años

For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

The mayor-elect built the greatest field operation by any political campaign in the city’s history – by getting New Yorkers to talk to eachother. Can Democrats learn from his…

Forget the medium and focus on the New York City mayor-elect’s message – centrists can’t compete with rent freezes, free buses and support for Palestine, says writer Rohan…

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Some point to his viral social media clips. Some say it’s the dimples. But Mamdani won with a disciplined campaign across all five boroughs.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York, a city with a budget of over $100 billion and a population larger than that of 40 U.S. States, demonstrates that the political movement has…