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White Coats in a Diverse State: New York Needs More Doctors of Color

Roughly one in three New Yorkers is black or Latino but only about one in 14 doctors in the Empire State hails from those communities. With med-school trends indicating the…

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What History Tells us About Ben Carson’s Fear of Refugee Radicals

The presidential candidate says the Paris attacks should convince the U.S. to close its doors to Syrian refugees. But if the threat of a violent element justified blocking immigrants, a…

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Do Inmates Deserve a ‘Do Over’ After Prison?

An education program for the formerly incarcerated has launched a #MyDoOver campaign to ask New Yorkers when they’ve gotten a second chance, and to press for more resources to give…

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Op-ed: Dishonest Cops Can Derail Criminal Justice Reform

In many low-level cases, cops are the only witnesses. So recent cases of officers lying in their reports or on the stand should give pause not just to judges but…

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Feds, State, City Must End the Debate Over Fair Housing, Find the Dollars to Deliver it

The question isn’t whether to aim to improve low-income neighborhoods or move the poor to more affluent areas. It’s how to do both. The answer lies in strengthening an array…

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NYC Students Deserve Comprehensive, Inclusive Sex Education

NYC’s Department of Education says that sex education should be taught once in a semester in middle school and once in high school, but many students are not even receiving…

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Op-ed: Bail Reform Needs a Mental-Health Component

A retired corrections captain writes that without a strong mental-health component, attempts to end financial bail will fail.

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NYC Might Not be a Great Place for Bikers. But it’s a Great Place to Bike.

After spending some time in the cyclists’ paradise of Boulder, Colo., a New Yorker returns to the difficult and sometimes dangerous practice of biking in New York—and finds that bikers…

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It’s Delusional to Say Homelessness is a Mental-Health Issue

Some homeless people do suffer from mental illness or substance abuse. But contrary to an increasingly popular canard, the problem for most of New York’s homeless is not in their…

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Hugo Chavez, an Oil Company and the Beautiful Sound of Bronx Youth

Ten years ago the controversial Venezuelan leader promised petroleum revenue to help the South Bronx. While Chavez’s legacy is complicated, a youth worker argues that an upcoming concert is proof…

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