Matt Flegenheimer

New York City has often set the political, cultural and financial course of the country. Tuesday’s mayoral election — and a New Yorker watching from Washington — could scramble it all.

The former governor, a distant second in most polls of the New York City mayor’s race, is working harder to attract voters and remind them who he is.

The quotable, luxury-loving, perpetually mysterious mayor took New Yorkers on a wild and unpredictable ride.

She was the ‘big sister’ he hoped to impress. He seemed inexperienced to her. Now, they’re the faces of a political movement — and New York is its test case.

The daytime TV fixture seems to have taken a rightward turn. But don’t call it politics.

She is one half of a Trump-world power couple. But she’s on Team Elon. It’s gotten complicated.

America’s best-known sports-talker is hosting boldface Democrats and MAGA luminaries and teasing a 2028 run. But what he really wants is ubiquitous political influence, and things of that nature.

Here are five takeaways from the Magazine’s profile of New York City’s mayor.

He promised law and order. Instead, his scandal-ridden mayoralty became a symbol — and engine — of the city’s chaos.

How U.F.C. was transformed into a cultural powerhouse with the help of the president-elect.