Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and part-owner of the progressive monthly magazine The Nation, shared a “fun fact” on social media today about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist who just won the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City.
Vanden Heuvel, a fellow New York City native, wrote: “Fun Fact: Zohran Mamdani applied to @thenation Internship program soon after he graduated from Bowdoin— and was rejected. He never re-applied —-but probably good that we didn’t steer him into journalism.”
Note: After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, Mamdani (who was born in Uganda) earned a bachelor’s degree in Africana studies from Bowdoin College…