Introducing Vishal Shankar, Elections Correspondent

Friends,

It was an amazing week. By wide margins, New York City elected a Social Democrat mayor who thinks there shouldn’t be billionaires, while Tesla’s board gave Elon Musk a $1 trillion pay package. Today, Heather and I, along with our colleague Vishal Shankar, take a deep dive into what all this means — for American politics, for the American economy, and for the future.

Please pull up a chair, grab a cuppa, and join the conversation.

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