Andrew Yang, Celebrity Politician
The front-runner to become the next mayor of New York has a lot of big ideas. Few of them have much to do with running New York.
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Andrew Yang was, briefly, a corporate attorney, then an executive at a test preparation company, then the founder of a nonprofit that encourages entrepreneurship. (It has a mixed record.) He ran for president in 2020, more or less as the Reddit Candidate, embracing memes and borrowing some of his policy agenda from the tech world. His signature proposal was a Universal Basic Income, and he gained an enthusiastic following in part by appearing on podcasts popular among highly online young men.