Lina Khan, the Biden-era Federal Trade Commission chairwoman who questioned mergers and championed antitrust enforcement, has returned to the spotlight as part of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. Khan said she wanted to “set a new model for Democratic governance” by helping Mamdani put together his administration.

Mamdani is a self-described socialist, though President Donald Trump has called him a communist. Khan is a longtime ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), both of whom strongly backed Mamdani in the mayoral contest. Khan once proclaimed that “all decisions are political insofar as government agencies are bringing them,” when discussing whether Amazon should be broken up.

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