Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. The Swiss woke up today to the news that a “democratic socialist” had been elected mayor of uber-capitalist New York. How did they react, and what could Zohran Mamdani’s victory mean for US politics as a whole? This week I also look at the “devastating consequences” of the longest-ever US government shutdown, and what Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-based online encyclopaedia, gets right – and wrong – about the Swiss president. Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, has been elected mayor of New York. The Swiss media have been looking at how radical his policies really are – and what the Democratic Party can learn from him. “New Yorkers have chosen a man who embodies the exact opposite of the American president. A challenge to the America of the octogenarian, which could ...
