Reach Out and Touch Gail Oliver Cambridge | January 2026   Sam Sifton, reporter at the New York Times , called Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, and Jessica Tisch, the city’s police commissioner, an odd couple. He said that if their partnership holds, it will be a reminder that people who disagree don’t have to be enemies, that the new incumbent doesn’t have to throw out all the experienced hands, that focusing on consensus instead of division is an art. Wouldn’t it be