Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Mamdani's win shows Democrats aren't dead yet

Zohran Mamdani's campaign was something remarkable and unprecedented – and a masterclass in what Democrats can do during the midterm elections. ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌  ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
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Wed Nov 5 2025

 
The Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, shakes the hand of a cab driver while campaigning in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood during early voting on Oct. 27, 2025.

Zohran Mamdani's campaign was something remarkable and unprecedented – and a masterclass in what Democrats can do during the midterm elections.

The Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and his wife, Rama Duwaji vote in Astoria on Nov. 4, 2025.
 

You did it, New York. You have your socialist mayor. Good luck.

Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist, and his policies are dangerous to this country's ideals of free markets and individualism.

Supporters of Zohran Mamdani celebrate the Democratic nominee winning the mayoral election at a rally in Brooklyn on Nov. 4, 2025.
 

Mamdani embodies the same hope that brought my parents to America

In electing Zohran Mamdani, we have collectively rejected the stale premise that the economy is healed by more capitalism.

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger campaigns in Norfolk on Nov. 1, 2025.
 

Virginia made history – and chose the wrong woman for governor

Abigail Spanberger will become Virginia's first female governor – but voters chose the wrong woman.

British commentator and analyst Sami Hamdi, carrying their child, and his wife, Soumaya T. Hamdi, in an undated family photo.
 

My husband was on a book tour. Then ICE abducted him.

British journalist Sami Hamdi's abduction by ICE isn't an immigration issue; it's about silencing political dissent to create a chilling effect.

People take part in early voting at a polling center in the Manhattan borough of New York on Oct. 27, 2025.
 

Trump's elections attacks are straight from the autocrat playbook

There is no doubt that midterm elections will take place in 2026, but it's up to states to decide just how free or fair they will be.

President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2024.
 

Here's why I didn't vote in 2024 – and why I wish I voted for Trump

I didn't vote in 2024 for practical reasons. But Democrats' authoritarian fearmongering make me wish I voted for President Donald Trump.

Attendants at a New York Young Republican Club party celebrate the reelection of President Donald Trump on Nov. 6, 2024, in Manhattan.
 

Young Republicans' hateful chat wasn't an anomaly. It's the new GOP.

The racism and extreme language revealed last month in the leaked Young Republicans group chat is not a small mistake by kids. I hear it regularly.

Camp Social is an all-women, adult sleepaway camp in the Poconos, Pennsylvania. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly half of adults reported experiencing loneliness, but in 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared America's loneliness epidemic a public health crisis.
 

I thought I was weak. But the anxiety I felt as a mom was by design.

If loneliness is the symptom, then redesigning our culture for connection is the cure. That means valuing caregiving as infrastructure, not charity.

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