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November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…a family “just needs help, such as access to child care assistance, mental health counseling or concrete resources,” Commissioner Jess Dannhauser announced at a press conference in mid-October. The revised…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…and reasonable” when they argued that “any substantial influx of the poor carries the danger of crime and decay,” Cuomo wrote. “Those blacks” in Queens’ Hollis “fortunate to have homes…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
The late New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan long complained — and commissioned data — about New York’s status as a “donor state,” for sending more in tax dollars to Washington…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
More than a decade ago, the Pew Research Center released a path-breaking study on people without religion: “Nones” on the Rise. At the time, I was in graduate school studying political science…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
How have the Great Recession in 2007, the COVID-19 pandemic that hit in 2020, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes that started in 2022 affected mortgages in the region?…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…used technology to handle dangerous, monotonous, and menial tasks for generations. And there are definitely areas where AI chatbots could be useful — especially when it comes to business. Software…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…with life. We have to worry about a failure to get going before we can worry about the dangers of going too far and pushing too hard. The dangers of…