As of the early hours of Wednesday morning, Mamdani had an 82 percent chance of winning the race, according to Polymarket.

Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York politics meets Ross Barkan’s take on Democratic rifts, Gaza, and the city’s shifting left

Think you know where the candidates for New York mayor are coming from? Think again. With less than 90 days to go before Election Day, the candidates are all migrating toward the political center, dropping old positions and adopting new ones, freely copying one another’s policies and style along the way.