Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city and an ambitious start to his term of office.
The 34-year-old political star and democratic…
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‘We Will Tell a New Story of Our City’
‘Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?’ the new mayor quipped. As New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures to celebrate his entry into office, Alexandria…
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Originally published on 3 November 2025.
In 1940, with much of Europe under fascist domination, US president Franklin Roosevelt declared that the United States must become ‘the great arsenal of democracy’. US industry…
By any measure, 2025 was not a good year for world peace.
Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline of peace and upsurge of war.
As author of a book on world peace and how we can achieve it (that’s literally the title),…
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And that concludes our live coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s historic inauguration. Thank you so much for reading along, and wishing you all a safe and healthy new year.
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