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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Mamdani Mania
“The biggest story of the week was what happened in New York City, where socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor,” writes Bari Weiss. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Everything from this week’s elections and much more.
By Bari Weiss
11.08.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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It was a great week for Democrats. Candidates steamrolled their Republican opponents on Tuesday, taking back the governor’s mansion in Virginia and keeping it in New Jersey. They scored unexpected victories in the Deep South, flipping two statewide offices in Georgia while breaking the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi senate.

Even Jay Jones, who look…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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