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When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?

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By Molly Fischer Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
This spring, across the nation’s auditoriums and quadrangles, members of the class of 2026 took their seats to receive remarks from distinguished guests. The graduation speech is a thankless form: generalized, impersonal exhortation/congratulation is almost guaranteed to be forgettable, if all goes well. But this year, on at least a few American campuses, all did not go well.
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Can Zohran Mamdani’s New Commissioner Solve the Problem of Rikers?

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By Molly Fischer Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
To get to Rikers Island, you have to cross a narrow bridge; it has a hump in the middle, which means that, from either end, the other side is invisible. Stanley Richards, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, pointed this out to me before my first visit to the island.
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Tascha Van Auken helped turn the D.S.A. into an electoral force. What will she do inside City Hall?

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By Molly Fischer Verified
| Portside
The reinvigorated D.S.A. lost the first two campaigns it ran (for a pair of City Council seats, in 2017). Then, in 2018, some D.S.A. members recruited an organizer named Julia Salazar to run for a State Senate seat; Van Auken managed the campaign, with Kinnucan as her deputy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had achieved her upset victory in the months before Salazar’s primary, and though Ocasio-Cortez hadn’t risen through the democratic-socialist ranks, she had been endorsed by the group.
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