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Opinion: The Constitutional Case for ‘Medicare for All’

“Promoting the general welfare” is a part of our social DNA. It is featured in the United States Constitution in the Preamble and tasked to Congress to do in Article…

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Opinion: Starving the CUNY System Erodes an Engine for Equality

‘The cumulative consequences of systematic underfunding – the long-term weathering of CUNY – mark the erosion of New York’s commitments to democracy, racial justice, integration, freedom of expression, and association.’

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Opinion: What’s Happening to Retail on the Upper East Side?

‘This district’s retail character, the driver of so much energy and life, is in decay. ‘

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Opinion: Stop Sunnyside Yards! Reparative City Building Now!

‘Development of Sunnyside Yards is emblematic of a broader and fraught city-building process, which is churning communities across the city and displacing working-class communities while building new neighborhoods for wealthier,…

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Opinion: Grassroots Movements are Needed to End Mass Incarceration

‘Around the country, more and more billionaires are getting involved in criminal justice reform.”

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Opinion: 3 Ways to Reach Education Equity in NYC

‘To begin the process of desegregating NYC’s public schools, we need to first equip teachers for long-term efficacy in high-needs districts.’

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Opinion: Let’s Attack Severe Maternal Morbidity at its Brooklyn Epicenter

‘With the Chisholm Chance Plan, we will make a historic investment of $60 million in the health and wellbeing of women and children in the epicenter of the severe maternal…

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Opinion: Open the Door Wider to Social Adult Day Care

‘The SADC program is a solution to the needs of the growing senior population and the caregiver shortage, at an hourly cost less than in-home personal care services. ‘

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Opinion: Ban on Menthol Cigarettes Would Have Unintended Consequences

‘History teaches us that prohibition-style policies for adult consumption has not only failed to reduce use of prohibited products, but at every turn, community conditions worsened.’

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Remembering Heidi Hynes, Who Harnessed Outrage and Joy in a Life of Advocacy

For her, a fury at life’s manifold injustices was never separated from a deep belief in the goodness of the world and its people, and a passionate faith—not a hope,…

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