How Is Mamdani Doing?
Former Nation editor Don Guttenplan on how Mamdani is balancing pragmatism and principles as he deals with policing,
Donald Trump and a tough budget.
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How is Mamdani Doing? w/ Don Guttenplan | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Former Nation editor Don Guttenplan is now bringing municipal politics to the magazine
with a weekly column tracking the progress of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. I spoke to Don
about how Mamdani is balancing pragmatism and principles as he deals with policing,
Donald Trump and a tough budget.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a “Rental Ripoff” hearing at Fordham University in the Bronx borough of New York on March 11, 2026.
(Spencer Platt / Getty Images)Former Nation editor Don Guttenplan is now bringing municipal politics to the magazine with a weekly column tracking the progress of mayor Zohran Mamdani. I spoke to Don about how Mamdani is balancing pragmatism and principles as he deals with policing, Donald Trump and a tough budget.
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The End of American Global Power? W/ Anusar Farooqui | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The conflict in the Middle East is currently in an intermittent holding action with an extended ceasefire but no diplomatic breakthrough. To assess where things are going, I sat down with the foreign policy analyst Anusar Farooqui, who runs an excellent substack called Policy Tensor and posts on Twitter here. We discussed the resiliency and growing stature of Iran, as well as the signs that unipolar US hegemony is coming to an end, to be replaced by a multipolar world.
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