Browsing: and now to a mayor educated in American classrooms who speaks the language of shared belonging. It reminds us that Islam has not merely survived in America

    On a cold January afternoon outside City Hall, Zohran Mamdani stepped into that unfinished struggle. As he raised his right hand and took the oath of office as mayor of New York City—the first Muslim ever to do so—he embodied a quieter American tradition: the insistence that conscience belongs in public life.