The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Blaw.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
In the autocrats' playbook, one of the most common plays is stifling the opposition.
That's been going on for a while in Turkey, but it hasn't all gone smoothly.
We ask how far President Erdogan is willing to go to hobble his would-be challengers.
And apparently, a lot of us are pretty grumpy.
Polls suggest that we've been getting angrier and sadder by the year.
But a global emotion survey, yes, these things really do exist,
now point to the possibility that we're feeling just a tiny bit sunnier.
First up, though.
It was a big night for the Democrats.
We are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn.
Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come.
New Yorkers turned out at the highest rate in nearly six decades to elect Zohran Mamdani,
a 34-year-old Democratic socialist as mayor.
My fellow Virginians.
This was a tough fight, and this is a tough state, but I know New Jersey.