Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York city mayoral elections has energized the left, enraged Trump (who seems to be trying to coopt him after denouncing him as a “communist” and threatening to cut off federal funding to New York), and stimulated debate on the left regarding independent political action and the use of the Democratic party ballot line. Mamdani won on a program of radical reforms with an anticapitalist dynamic that spoke directly to issues of affordable housing, (…)

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant, walked up to two Virginia National Guard members stationed in Washington, D.C. on November 26 and shot them point blank. One of them, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died of her injuries, while the other, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition. Lakanwal was also severely wounded and he has ben accused of murder. À Following the shootings, Trump immediately paused migration from Afghanistan and 19 other “Third World Countries,” in Africa and (…)

Your Party's founding conference was a battleground between unelected bureaucrats and the left, but in the end it has produced a new socialist and working-class party. Simon Hannah and Terry Conway reports. The road to the founding conference was publicly torturous and displayed some of the worst aspects of some people on the left. Bickering over data and control, public spats and arguments, brash actions clashing with ingrained conservative caution. Certainly, the energy from the start (…)