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Nikil Saval

  • State Senator, 1st District, PA
Philadelphia
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The Power of the Source | Nikil Saval

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By Nikil Saval
| Soundings from The New York Review
Illustration by Stuart Davis The night Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, I was at a dinner gathering of fair housing and tenants’ rights advocates in New Jersey.
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Zohran Mamdani is not unique. The Democratic Socialists are working here too. | Opinion

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By Nikil Saval
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory, there will be countless retrospectives about what makes him a strong candidate and how his singular talent was discovered. As extraordinary a campaigner and coalition builder as Mamdani may be, candidates like him are not unique. They are made by political organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America — both in New York and in Philadelphia. Over the past year, a broad movement coalesced around Mamdani to sweep him into office.
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James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods,” Reviewed

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By Nikil Saval
| The New Yorker Verified
Scott wants us to look past disasters such as these. Focussing on the human costs of flooding, he argues, is too anthropocentric. A flood may be, “for humans,” the “most damaging of ‘natural’ disasters worldwide,” but, from “a long-run hydrological perspective, it is just the river breathing deeply, as it must.” A seasonal inundation, known as a “flood pulse,” delivers crucial nutrients to organisms that depend on rivers.
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