CHANGEOVER out in one week! over the next few days I’ll share some favorite moments from its creation

TIME's new cover: the democratic socialist and backbench state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has gone from local long shot to likely mayor of America’s biggest city. Our interview: time.com/7308924/zohran… Photograph by Dina Litovsky for TIME

May surprise some to see Mamdani namechecking Doctoroff time.com/7308924/zohran…

Read Mark Chiusano on Zohran for nyc school stories, subway trips and more!

Really great piece, and — instead of pretending the general election is actually competitive — one of the first that focuses mostly on how Mamdani might govern. I found this anecdote to be particularly encouraging: “This year,” Heastie notes, “he voted for the entire budget.”

Interesting notes here too on Mamdani’s early education, including Bank Street tuition help and Mamdani both tutoring and being tutored time.com/7308924/zohran…

“In a sense he does come from a showbiz family,” says Amitav Ghosh. Mark Chiusano on Zohran! time.com/7308924/zohran…

"He is a movement politician who won by being in touch with the streets, and who must now cloister himself inside as he prepares for the business of governing, not betraying the people by not failing them." time.com/7308924/zohran…

My friend Mark Chiusano’s Time cover story profiles Zohran Mamdani, who has risen from obscurity to likely NYC mayor through bold progressive policies and grassroots campaigning -- and now faces scrutiny, national stakes, and a post-primary “Don’t Worry Tour” to reassure skeptics.

“I already miss being outside,” he tells me. “I now go to cemeteries a lot between meetings,” Zohran Kwame Mamdani reflecting on his new found fame, “because they are parks without people.” time.com/7308924/zohran…

I've read a lotttt about Mamdani. And Mark Chiusano's profile is excellent.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani come to Green-Wood our gates are open! NYC’s original park, and only rural cemetery.

A student at Public School 89 in Queens was detained along with her brother and mother at an ICE check-in in lower Manhattan this week — the first known ICE arrest of an NYC child under the age of 18 during the second Trump administration. buff.ly/BtgXPqS