What does Zohran Mamdani’s win mean for Democrats? It’s complicated. | Opinion
USA Today 11-09-2025
“Mamdani’s pledge to stand up to Trump could also serve as a road map for the Democratic Party. While his main focus has been on affordability, his clear opposition to the president tapped into Democratic voters’ frustration about the party’s leaders and their willingness to take on Trump,” wrote Jacob Smith, assistant professor in political science at Fordham University.
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Mamdani is elected mayor of New York. Here are his next hurdles.
The Washington Post 11-05-2025
Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said Hochul’s reelection battle could give Mamdani leverage as she will need his support in what’s expected to be a contentious race.
“She will have a very challenging time, and she’ll need Zohran Mamdani and his ground game and many of his supporters,” Greer said. “We’ll see an interesting coalition building between the two of them.”
Can Drake Win His Appeal Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’? Experts Explain How He Might
Billboard 11-06-2025
Because, some legal experts say, a court of appeal might be more open to siding with Drake than the court of public opinion. “I think there’s actually a good argument that ‘pedophile’ wasn’t meant metaphorically here,” says Benjamin C. Zipursky, a professor at Fordham Law School and an expert in defamation law.
Oldest married couple ever share their sweet love story 83 years after saying ‘I do’
Guinness World Records 110-05-2025
An American couple who met over 80 years ago have officially broken records with their love story. Lyle and Eleanor Gittens (USA) were students at Clark Atlanta University when they first coupled up in 1941.
Eleanor went on to earn a doctorate in Urban Education from Fordham University when she was 69, and they both remained active members of the Clark Atlanta University Alumni Association for decades.
The Gitten’s record was also highlighted in The Associated Press, People Magazine, AOL, and The New York Post.
The Challenges of Regulating Sports-Betting Advertisements
The Regulatory Review 11-06-2025
Regulators face an important question: Can anything be done to limit the prevalence of advertising for sports gambling in an age of heightened commercial speech protection? Mark Conrad, a professor at Fordham University confronts this question in a recent article, proposing that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) use its power over broadcasting to regulate sports-betting advertisements.
From groceries to gas, Americans say they’re spending more under Trump
The Washington Post 11-04-2025
“Even as inflation has gone down, people are still struggling with very high price levels for food, energy and health care,” said Sophie Mitra, an economics professor at Fordham University. “The rate of increases has slowed, but things are still very difficult, especially for low- and middle-income households.”
This article was picked up by MSN, The Seattle Times, and Alternet.
NYC voters voice excitement and concerns this Election Day
MSNBC 11-04-2025
“I think one of two things will happen: either it’ll be a nail-biter and Andrew Cuomo will get a lot more support than anticipated, as the polls would show, or it’ll actually be a blowout. Since we’ve sort of undercounted, you know, the close to one million Muslim New Yorkers who are first-time voters and young people who have been mobilized by this Mamdani campaign, you know, and so many other demographics, as he’s gone to all five boroughs consistently since, you know, January, essentially when the race really began,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University.
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How Zohran Mamdani won NYC? Be everywhere. Talk to everyone. Focus on affordability.
USA Today 11-07-2025
“New York is accustomed to a pendulum swing,” Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University and co-host of the politics podcast “FAQ NYC,” told USA TODAY.
“This is the time time to be bold,” Greer said. “This is the time to try something new, because, clearly, whatever we have been doing is not working, right?”
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Mamdani clinches the votes of young people, newcomers to NYC. Experts explain why
ABC News 11-06-2025
“He awakened something in them. That goes for the new voters and young voters, where they thought that they had to accept the status quo of politics as usual and things that are coming out of Washington, D.C., and the corruption that we’ve had, and they realize that they actually don’t have to look that way,” Christina Greer, an associate political science professor at Fordham University, told ABC News.
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Mamdani is elected mayor of New York. Here are his next hurdles.
The Washington Post 11-05-2025
Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said Hochul’s reelection battle could give Mamdani leverage as she will need his support in what’s expected to be a contentious race.
“She will have a very challenging time, and she’ll need Zohran Mamdani and his ground game and many of his supporters,” Greer said. “We’ll see an interesting coalition building between the two of them.”
MAGA is trying to turn Zohran Mamdani’s win into their gain
The Washington Post 11-06-2025
“The Mamdani campaign is much larger than New York City,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University. “The hard conversations begin on November 5th.”
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Mamdani takes reins of a NYC beset by challenges
Politico 11-04-2025
While Cuomo tested out campaign messages painting a dark picture of the city as crime-ridden or casting Mamdani as too inexperienced, the democratic socialist tapped into the deep economic anxieties afflicting a huge share of the electorate. That, according to Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, was one of the main reasons why he was successful.
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Andrew Cuomo’s political career reaches an operatic conclusion
Politico 11-05-2025
“You could literally see him confused how this 33-year-old at the time was talking about being a proud Muslim and that’s not antisemitism,” said Christina Greer, a Fordham University professor and an ethnic politics expert. “I mean, welcome to 2025. This is time and time again Andrew Cuomo returning to a New York City that he doesn’t understand.”
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Balance of Power: New Roadblocks in Shutdown Deal
Bloomberg 11-06-2025
“The reason why they’re not going to the table is because they don’t want millions upon millions of Americans to lose their health care. That’s something that Republicans have been very clear that they want—Obamacare done. They have not presented Democrats with a strategy. Some people in the Republican Congress have said they don’t have a strategy. Therefore, Democrats are holding out.” said Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University.
Did Andrew Cuomo Daughters Break the Law While He Was Voting? What We Know
Newsweek 11-05-2025
Jerry Goldfeder, an adjunct professor and director of the voting rights and democracy project at Fordham University, told Newsweek that wearing shirts or other campaign paraphernalia within the polling sites is a form of campaigning that is not allowed. He said that it is allowed only if at least 100 feet outside a polling site.
Latin America’s Failure to Act on Venezuelan Tyranny | Opinion
Newsweek 11-07-2025
“By November 6, the Trump administration has destroyed 17 alleged drug trafficking boats, and has deployed an aircraft carrier group against military-mafia kleptocracy that has devoured Venezuela. Although President Donald Trump has said he will not order strikes within Venezuela for now, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is seeking anti-missile technology from Russia, China and Iran, according to a leaked letter,” wrote John Davenport, professor of philosophy at Fordham University.
What Mamdani’s spectacular New York mayoral win means for Trump and 2028
The i Paper 11-05-2025
“I think it shows that if you are an exciting candidate and have a consistent message that people want to turn out,” Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University in New York, told The i Paper.
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More on the City’s Next Mayor
WYNC: The Brian Lehrer Show 11-06-2025
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the podcast FAQNYC, and the author of How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams (Cambridge University Press, 2024), offers an analysis of the results of the New York City mayoral race and what’s next for the city’s new mayor
Zohran Mamdani’s Historic Win; New Jersey’s New Governor Mikie Sherrill; Election Results Across the Country
WYNC: The Brian Lehrer Show 11-05-2025
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the podcast FAQNYC and the author of How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams (Cambridge University Press, 2024), offers analysis of the results of the New York City mayoral race and what’s next for the city’s new mayor.
Bomb threats cause chaos as multiple NJ polling stations temporarily shut down
Raw Story 11-04-2025
Fordham University School of Law Professor John Pfaff pointed out that Patterson, New Jersey, has approximately 65% Hispanic and 20% Black community.
Business Expert Identified Stephen Curry’s Influence on Trae Young Months Before Warriors Star’s Confession
Yardbarker 11-05-2025
Mark Conrad, director of the sports business program at Fordham University, recently spoke on how Trae Young had anchored a collegiate program from the inside out. Forbes wrote of his interaction with them, “[Trae Young] could help Oklahoma identify talent, mentor young players and balance the egos that come with uneven compensation in a locker room”, Conrad contends.
Trump’s Proposed $2,000 Checks from Tariff Revenue: Macroeconomic and Investment Implications
AInvest 11-09-2025
Paul Johnson, an adjunct professor of value investing at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, argues that recipients may treat the funds as “free money,” leading to increased spending rather than savings-a historically inflationary behavior, as Fortune reports.
60 years after Vatican II document on non-Christian relations, panelists say work to implement it continues
Catholic Review 11-05-2025
The third panelist, Rabbi Katya Vehlow, director of Jewish Life at Fordham University, said that portion of the document illustrated that a long-entrenched belief of the church could be changed. But, she added, the language leaves a wound when it also suggests that “Christians have replaced Jews in God’s favor.”
J. Pharoah Doss: Being Black in America is a disability—a legal strategy?
New Pittsburgh Courier 11-04-2025
In 2018, Kimani Paul-Emile, an associate professor of law at Fordham University and associate director of its law school’s Center on Race, Law & Justice, made headlines for suggesting that African Americans should embrace the idea that “being Black in America is a disability” as “a new legal strategy.”
Review of ‘Frankenstein’ 2025
Vocal Media 11-08-2025
“One of the most impressive and important characteristics of Frankenstein’s creation in Shelley’s novel are the creation’s nearly superpowers. The exact reason for this is never quite explained, and the same is the case for the 2025 movie,” wrote Paul Levinson, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University.
Opinion | A sports gambling scandal? Who could have seen that coming?
The Cap Times 11-05-2025
“The leagues have to look themselves in the eye,” said Mark Conrad, professor of law and ethics at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. “They’ve gone to bed with the big gambling companies, seeing the monetary advantage.”
The Letitia James Prosecution: When Revenge Masquerades as Justice
Daily Kos 11-08-2025
FactCheck.org interviewed Fordham law professor James Kainen, who noted: “By comparison, prosecutors overlooked potential mortgage fraud cases involving applicants who lied about thousands of dollars in income and then defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt during the Great Recession.”
Op-ed | Should our clergy be telling us how to vote?
AMNY 11-07-2025
“The dust certainly won’t settle for quite some time. New York City’s mayoralty has been decided, but we don’t yet know if the Jewish community’s fears regarding Zohran Mamdani are truly warranted or not. That is, the fears that led many New York City rabbis to, amid some controversy, take to their pulpits to affirmatively urge their congregations to vote against him,” wrote Joel Cohen, adjunct professor at both Fordham Law School.
What Can Mamdani Actually Do As Mayor?
The Dispatch 11-05-2025
According to Bruce Berg, a political science professor at Fordham University, Mamdani’s most valuable bargaining chip with political opponents is “his coalition and his bully pulpit.”
“It’s a large coalition,” he told TMD. State and local officials, especially those in elected positions, likely know that if Mamdani “goes out and mobilizes them, he can use them to support me, [or]he can use them to oppose me.”
Armenian holy leader to visit Fresno for ceremony marking genocide
The Business Journal 11-04-2025
His Holiness was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1947 and studied at the Armenian Theological Seminary in Antelias, the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey in Switzerland, the American University of Beirut, Oxford University and Fordham University in New York, where he earned multiple advanced degrees.
Bronx Youth’s Catholic Faith Journey Leads to Majoring in Theology
The Good News Room 11-03-2025
Today, Nicole [Duarte] is a freshman at Fordham University, where theology is her declared major. Her career plan: to teach children about the Catholic faith, religion class to help guide them in their faith journey. Which is what she’s doing now to some extent as a young-adult volunteer for high school Youth Ministry at Holy Cross; and previously, she assisted with grade school catechism lessons at the parish.
This Freshman’s Cozy, Black-and-White Dorm Comes With a View of the Manhattan Skyline
Dorm Therapy 11-07-2025
The view of the Manhattan skyline from Margo’s (@marg.o018 on TikTok, @margo0.18 on Instagram) dorm is amazing, but the sights don’t stop there. Her black-and-white gallery wall is so creative and cool, and her minimalist style is as sleek and glam as the city lights surrounding her residence hall at Fordham University.
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Archbishop Stepinac High School Shooting Guard Jasiah Jervis Commits to Michigan State University
The Good News Room 11-06-2025
Jervis becomes the fifth Stepinac senior to commit to a Division I program this year. The Ratliff twins committed to USC, guard Hassan Koureissi pledged to Fordham University, and forward Dylan Perry chose New Jersey’s Monmouth University.
Kent State football coach Mark Carney, Akron Zips coach Joe Moorhead share Fordham QB bond
Akron Business Journal 11-10-2025
Twenty-four years ago, Joe Moorhead went out of his way to congratulate Mark Carney on setting a Fordham University single-game record with five touchdown passes.
Two weeks ago, one of the first congratulatory text messages Carney received when Kent State University removed his interim tag and hired him as its full-time football coach came from Moorhead, who’s in his fourth season at the helm of the University of Akron.
Samara Joy will celebrate her 26th birthday, onstage in Philly, the city where her grandparents founded a savings club-cum-gospel group
The Philadelphia Inquirer 11-10-2025
The jazz singer’s career has been ascendant since 2019, when she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition while a student at Fordham University. Four years later, she stunned the music world when she was named best new artist at the 2023 Grammys.
