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November 9, 2023

What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win

…even if their incomes go up. Nor is there any time limit on public housing — where some 20% of tenants have lived for 40 years or more. Similarly, rent-stabilized…

November 8, 2023

Perspective: The 4-Year Dividing Line

…same. At the same time, highly educated workers are nearly three times more likely to say making a meaningful contribution to society is one of the most important concerns when…

October 31, 2023

It Takes Two

…at any time since 1987. Finally, the teen birth rate (and nonmarital teen birth rate) also began steady declines at around the same time. As it happens, the early 1990s was a period…

October 27, 2023

What Happened to the American Dream?

…of disappointment — “Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream,” a new book by my Times colleague and former podcast sparring partner David Leonhardt. It’s a…

October 25, 2023

The Freedom to Choose

…into the realm of sociology. At the same time, however, it falls into, a victimology that is often more asserted than argued. Let’s start with where I think Frohnen is right. American associational life has been…

October 25, 2023

Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit

…Plan. That partisan legislation sharply increased the value of the CTC, provided it in monthly installments in the second half of 2021, and paid it for the first time to parents…

October 24, 2023

Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically

times to apply for a job delivering medicine on my bicycle. I was about ten or eleven and he always told me I wasn’t old enough. I was eager to…

October 23, 2023

Teach Your Children Well

…things that they may not if they just spend time around kids their own age. But Moskowitz also has a lot of suggestions for family time. She is a big…

October 17, 2023

What Poor Children Need

…know that having just one parent deprives a child of the parental money, time, and energy needed to help them succeed, and that boys are more hurt than girls by…

October 13, 2023

Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies

…Coupled with sensationalized reports of poor conditions in state hospitals, it was an argument that led, over time, to the loss of hundreds of thousands of hospital beds. The advent…