New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater on November 4, 2025. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

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From time to time, news outlet leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

I found myself thinking about this on Tuesday evening as Zohran Mamdani talked about “the working people of New York,” whom he credited with his victory. “Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that h

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