Zohran Mamdani is already under siege
Right-wing cancellation campaigns and Trump’s foreign invasions: inside the New York mayor’s first week in office
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Ross Barkan
Ross Barkan is a writer from New York City and a columnist for the New Statesman. His book Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics and his novel Glass Century were both published this year.
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