Mamdani’s taking over NY institutions to push his agenda —testing the law’s limits

Mayor Zohran Mamdani may be an ideologue, but he’s also what Niccolò Machiavelli deemed “a sensible man”: One who will “will base his power on what he controls.” And he’s using his time in office to exert greater control over city institutions — sometimes even testing the bounds of the law — to build a...