| CLAIRE HOWORTH,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, FEATURES & DEVELOPMENT |
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If you are familiar with James Pogue's byline, then you know he's done some of the most groundbreaking writing on the rise of the intellectual right over the past few years, as well as some killer reporting on the Democrats' utter disarray. Who better, then, to interview Zohran Mamdani about his supercharged campaign across New York City? But it's not the five boroughs that concern Pogue—his story places Mamdani in the broader context of American politics, asking what this figure, polarizing on both the left and the right but in command of an enthusiastic base, portends of our future. |
With Kennedy-like appeal, a coalition spanning immigrant communities and Gen Z progressives, and a resolute focus on affordability, Zohran Mamdani is being hailed by supporters as the future of the Democratic Party—and attacked by detractors as dangerously radical.
Behind all this is a man who has clearly struggled to find his place in the world. Behind that there is a family story and a background that are inescapably enmeshed with a sort of thought that is critical of the vision most Americans still hold of the country. Behind that there is Palestine, the issue that some of the people who know him call "formative." |
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In VF's latest digital cover story, James Pogue traces how Mamdani has risen from grassroots organizer to one of the highest-profile figures in American politics today, and asks the question: Is he the future or just a fantasy? |
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Molly Jong-Fast checks in with Chuck Schumer: "Democrats have been resolute that we need a real negotiation." |
From the war in Gaza to the imagined arrest of Barack Obama, there's no topic so serious that the president won't promote a meme about it. |
Two years after AI protections ruled the Hollywood labor strikes, an emerging production studio is introducing a computer-made movie star to rival Scarlett Johansson. And SAG-AFTRA isn't happy. |
Debuting exclusively with VF, the trailer for the new documentary Love+War sees Lynsey Addario running from danger and explosions in Ukraine as her husband and two young sons wait back home in London. |
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Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an internationally recognized expert on viral outbreaks, played a role in helping fight the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 and has spent years working to strengthen America's pandemic preparedness infrastructure. Then came COVID-19. Public health experts were left "to figure all this out while painting the plane in midair," as he puts it in his new book.
In a sobering interview with VF's Katherine Eban, Osterholm expresses concern over our willful deconstruction of parts of our vaccine infrastructure in Donald Trump's second term—especially because the cause of a future pandemic may already be out there. |
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