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Opinion: Past is Prologue to NYC’s Flawed COVID-19 Homeless Policy

‘Twenty-five years ago, Mario Cuomo was known for his oratory. During his years in office, Presidents Reagan and Bush made him look like a paragon of virtue. But his parting…

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Opinion: Don’t Gut the City’s Housing Plan

‘Now is the time to double down on affordable housing, and build on the progress already made under the mayor’s ambitious housing plan. It is not the time to retreat.’

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Opinion: What College Kids Lose at Online U

‘Education’s response to the pandemic—which catapulted us fully online at breakneck speed—must be understood as an emergency measure, not an overall best approach, which it is not.’

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Opinion: How We Can Eat, Rather than Dump, Our Dairy and Produce

‘Food waste is troubling in the best of time, but given current hunger epidemic, it’s particularly shocking to see dairies dumping milk and farmers discarding good produce.’

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Opinion: NYC Needs a Real Plan to Improve Social-Distancing Compliance

‘Mayor de Blasio has shifted the police’s role. What comes next must be a smart, actionable plan that empowers local communities to educate, assist, and lead first-level enforcement of social…

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Opinion: The Life of a Public Defender When COVID is on Offense

‘Men take the jail phone one by one to ask me questions. They beg me to contact their families so I can tell their families that they love them in…

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Opinion: COVID-19 and NYC’s Heart of Darkness

‘We’ll never learn the names of people found dead in the subway or in their Rikers cell, preventable casualties of public austerity and incalculable racism.’

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Opinion: The Way We Visit Chinatown Planted Seeds for Today’s Discrimination

‘Nowhere is America’s problematic relationship to Chinese-Americans more apparent than on Doyers Street in Chinatown, Manhattan. To many, it’s the Bloody Angle.’

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Opinion: Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve

‘These cuts don’t have to happen; in fact, this could be a moment to reverse the decades of debilitating disinvestment— lifting up the very people whose labor, smarts, and persistence…

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Opinion: Cuomo’s New Order Opens the Door to Evictions

‘Instead of protecting tenants, the order puts the onus on tenants to prove they are entitled to not be sued or evicted.’

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