As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form. ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tapping a longtime Democratic Socialist organizer to head up a shiny new agency in City Hall in an attempt to co-opt his comrades' mobilization model to city government....