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Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress

  • Written by Nicole West Bassoff, Posdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy, University of Virginia
imageNew York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 8, 2025.AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo

After a decisive election win, Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York on Jan. 1, 2026. His impressive grassroots campaign made big promises targeted at working-class New Yorkers: universal child care, rent freezes and...

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