WHAT Zohran Mamdani has achieved with his win in the New York City mayoral race is, to put it in US lawmaker Bernie Sanders’ words, “one of the great political upsets in modern American history”.

Mr Mamdani, who will become the Big Apple’s first mayor of Muslim and South Asian descent, has indeed created history, through a relentless campaign to convince the citizens of one of the world’s greatest and most diverse cities to give him a chance in the driving seat. His victory also gives progressive forces the........

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