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Opinion

No BackSpace: The Case for Abolishing the Police

By Josmar Trujillo | August 16, 2016

Most New York City activists want to mend the NYPD. But the author and others want to end it instead.

Manhattan

No BackSpace: In Primary Race, Voter Choice Could Thwart Ethnic Achievement

By Rong Xiaoqing | July 22, 2016

A growing base of Chinese voters creates a chance for an ethnic first in the contest for a Lower Manhattan Assembly seat. But with three Chinese candidates in the race, the community’s strength could be split.

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No BackSpace: Civilian Complaint Review Board Staggers On

By Josmar Trujillo | July 15, 2016

The mayor tabs a civil-rights lawyer to head the Civilian Complaint Review Board. The police unions cry out. The sequence suggests bold change is afoot. The record suggests otherwise, this author says.

Clinton

No BackSpace: How the Left Can Stop Defeating Itself in 5 Easy Steps

By Joel Berg | July 5, 2016

‘We should appeal to the nation’s fundamental altruism, explaining how all of us will benefit from a more inclusive America. Simply scapegoating the one percent just won’t cut it.’

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Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent

By Joel Berg | July 1, 2016

Joel Berg argues that the focus on the 1 percent, and the claim by Bernie Sanders that his backers represented grassroots America, both blur the realities of class, identity and politics in 2016 America.

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No BackSpace: How the Left Turns Off the Public and Turns On Itself

By Joel Berg | June 29, 2016

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Joel Berg takes a hard look at his allies on the Left—from Occupy to Bernie Bros—whose tactics are often less compelling than their politics.

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Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

By Josmar Trujillo | June 15, 2016

Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

Opinion

No BackSpace: Can You Hear Us Now? How Verizon Strikers Came Through Loud and Clear

By Katie Unger | June 9, 2016

In multiple ways, the workers took on the company along the contested front between the new and old economy, and won.

Opinion

It’s Time for Bernie To Drop Out. No Really. This Time We Mean It.

By Jarrett Murphy | June 8, 2016

The Vermont socialist may soon remove the capital ‘D’ that has been appended to his name over the course of the race, but his stubborn refusal to prematurely accept The Math has produced a welcome Spring crop of small ‘d’ democracy.

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No BackSpace: Why Climate Change Divides the Labor Movement

By Mark Dunlea | June 3, 2016

It’s not that unions can’t get behind steps to save the planet. It’s that they can’t endorse policies that don’t also create good jobs.

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