FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Zohran Mamdani assumed the mayoralty of New York in the very first minute of 2026, far from the city’s glittering surface. The swearing-in took place underground, in a subway station deactivated in 1945. The gesture was symbolic and calculated: descend before governing, look at the city from below before attempting to change it from above.

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