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D.D. Guttenplan

@ddguttenplan.bsky.social
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Fomentor, former Editor of The Nation (@thenation.com), fast eater, picky reader, slow runner.

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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Isn't it wrong to kill other people's children?," asks @bradlander.bsky.social at #SederintheStreets. Plus Mayor Pothole's latest challenge: fixing NYC's legacy of systemic racism. My latest from #TheMamdaniBeat in @thenation.com:
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How Mamdani Presides Over a Fix-Everything Agenda
The New York mayor wants to tackle everything from potholes to systemic racism.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
One Upon a Time on the Far West Side. My latest on #TheMamdaniBeat: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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What Made This Seder Different From Any Other Seder?
Answer: The presence of New York’s first Muslim mayor.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
If you only read one piece on Substack this week, read this one from @corbintrent.bsky.social: The Obama Problem open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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The Obama Problem
We have a lot to learn from both candidate and president Obama. A new generation of candidates is learning the wrong lessons.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Eventually New York's Mayor Zohran Mamdani found his footing. But not before a little stumble over the Irish question: www.thenation.com/article/poli... #TheMamdaniBeat
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Mamdani Stumbles Over the Irish Question
The mayor’s difficulty in handling a question on Irish unification wasn’t entirely his fault. But it was also a trap he should have seen coming.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Latest on #TheMamdaniBeat: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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A Trial by Fire for Tisch and Mamdani, New York’s Premier Odd Couple
How this weekend’s failed attack outside Gracie Mansion could reinforce the strange-bedfellows alliance between the mayor and the police commissioner.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The NY Mayor's secret Oval Office meeting seemed like another PR coup--until it didn't. My latest from #TheMamdaniBeat: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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How the Theatrics of Mamdani’s Trump Meeting Backfired
By pandering to the president’s vanity, the New York mayor reinforced Trump’s image as a strongman commanding deference—an especially bad look on the eve of Trump’s war with Iran
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
My latest from The Mamdani Beat: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Mamdani Launches His First Salvos in New York’s Fiscal Battle
The mayor, the governor, and the members of the city’s big-ticket tax base are all squaring off over prospective tax increases and service cuts.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says it’s up to New Yorkers to grade his performance. After a month on the job, I gave Hizzoner an A-. A promising start but with room to improve: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Mamdani Touts a Stunning View of the City, but Struggles to Clear the Sidewalks
The New York mayor is opening the roof of the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to the public, but has plenty of work ahead to make the city below more affordable and accessible.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Once upon a time in New York ...https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/zohran-mamdani-dsa-victory-election-day/
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Defend. Disrupt. Dream." As @janainelson.bsky.social of naacpldf.org notes, that was the strategy for victory during the civil rights era, and has every chance of succeeding again. A rare piece of cheerful news from @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Does the Passover seder fill you with dread? Treat yourself to Richard Kreitner’s Fear No Pharoah: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery. Besides making me see the Haggadah in a whole new light it’s also a really terrific story. @thenation.com #Passover.
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D.D. Guttenplan @ddguttenplan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"I am writing this to rebuke good behavior. I am writing this to rebuke the algorithm." @thenation.com poetry editor Kaveh Akbar asks "What will you do?" www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
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