D.S.A. Backs Raman's Challenge to Bass in L.A. Mayoral Race

In Los Angeles, a city long defined by its contradictions of wealth and want, city council member Nithya Raman has stepped forward to challenge incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, carrying with her the formal endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. The contest is more than a local primary — it is a referendum on whether the democratic socialist movement has matured into a force capable of unseating establishment Democrats in America's largest cities. How Los Angeles votes will echo far beyond its borders, offering a measure of how deeply a politics of redistribution and structural change