Eric Lach

The thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist has created a movement. Can it overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?

A few months ago, the “no-name” state assemblyman seemed destined to lose to Andrew Cuomo. On election night, he redrew the city’s political maps.

The state assemblyman’s social-media storytelling has earned him an unexpected place in the popular imagination. How does his persona fit into the lineage of historical and fictional New York figures?

A scandal over a bag of chips exemplifies all that has gone wrong at City Hall.

The Mayor makes official what has been obvious for some time, and ends his reëlection campaign.

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

In his cynical campaign for mayor, the former New York governor touted the decades he spent in power. That was part of the problem.

His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

The Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image, talking with everyday New Yorkers one on one.

When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature.