For Youth in Crisis, Why ‘Raise the Age’ Still Matters

Locking up more kids on longer sentences didn’t make us safer in the past, and it won’t now. It just intensifies our problems.

Seth MoncreaseMarch 16, 2022jan2022-onwards

Freeze Food Waste Collection Again? We’ve Got to Do Better Than That.

The City’s stop-and-start pattern of curbside organic waste is self-defeating. Instead, it’s time to rethink the way we collect our waste.

Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseMarch 9, 2022jan2022-onwards

New York Has New Leaders. Can They Solve the City’s Housing Problems?

What housing policies can New Yorkers expect from Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul?

Housing & HomelessnessSeth MoncreaseMarch 2, 2022jan2022-onwards

An Overlooked Bronx Tale Gets a Fresh Telling

It’s the biggest housing development in the nation – and it played a surprising role in New York City’s near-death fiscal crisis in the 1970s.

Housing & HomelessnessSeth MoncreaseFebruary 23, 2022jan2022-onwards

For Non-Profits in Racial Transition, It Can Be ‘Welcome to the Glass Cliff’

What special burdens do people of color take on when they assume leadership of nonprofit organizations?

Seth MoncreaseFebruary 16, 2022jan2022-onwards

Could Penn Station Plans Go Off the Rails?

Is this the bold new project New York needs now? Or could it leave us with a nasty financial hangover?

Seth MoncreaseFebruary 9, 2022jan2022-onwards

New York Has a Jobs Problem. Let’s Help the People Who Can Fix It.

Investing in workforce training and placement is the next, crucial phase of recovery from Covid-19’s job disruptions.

Covid-19Seth MoncreaseFebruary 2, 2022jan2022-onwards

Heightened Suffering, Dwindling Supplies: Meeting the Crisis at Rikers

With supplies for detainees running low, community donors stepped in.

Covid-19, JusticeSeth MoncreaseJanuary 26, 2022jan2022-onwards

Flush With Cash, Faced With Covid: Albany Ponders Budget Choices

In the best, and worst, of times, State officials face some decisions.

Covid-19Seth MoncreaseJanuary 19, 2022jan2022-onwards

Four Steps to an NYC ‘Healing Revolution’

New York City should beef up mental health resources instead of building up systems of enforcement and punishment

Covid-19, Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseJanuary 12, 2022jan2022-onwards

Great 2021 Nonfiction From New School Writers

Environmental justice. High-tech cities. The meaning of baldness. All just some of what The New School community’s non-fiction writers had on their minds this year.

Seth MoncreaseDecember 15, 2021march232021-onward

Tales Well Told: 2021 Fiction and Poetry From The New School Community

This year’s titles run from near-future dystopias to twisty psychological thrillers to a delightfully silly younger-set graphic novel.

Seth MoncreaseDecember 8, 2021march232021-onward

Healing Embedded Trauma: What City Leaders Should and Can Do

Socially based trauma can be internalized, with devastating effects. It can also be healed.

Racial Equity, Children, Youth & FamilySeth MoncreaseDecember 1, 2021march232021-onward

The Need to ‘Decolonize’ Parenting: A Q&A On Family Healing with Erasma Beras-Monticciolo

Let’s recognize how a legacy of colonial oppression, and the everyday realities of structural racism, can warp and weaken family bonds.

Racial Equity, Children, Youth & FamilySeth MoncreaseNovember 23, 2021march232021-onward

Public Banking for a Just Recovery: A How-To Guide for NYC

Why not put the people’s money to work on behalf of the people? That’s the goal of creating a public bank.

Seth MoncreaseNovember 17, 2021march232021-onward

Returning to Rikers On a Bridge of Memories

I first went to Rikers at age 17, in chains. Now I’m back, because I choose to help others.

JusticeSeth MoncreaseNovember 10, 2021march232021-onward

Delivery Workers Organize for Safety, And Dignity, on the Streets of New York

An immigrant delivery worker from Mexico says his dream is to be protected on the job and “live without fear.”

Education, Covid-19Seth MoncreaseNovember 3, 2021march232021-onward

To Improve Public Health, Make Housing a Human Right

We have a housing crisis that’s also a public health emergency. Here are some things the next mayor can do about it.

Housing & Homelessness, Covid-19Seth MoncreaseOctober 27, 2021march232021-onward

How the Next Mayor Can Make Remote Learning Effective

New York City still lacks a coherent digital learning strategy. Here’s how to develop one.

Education, Covid-19Seth MoncreaseOctober 20, 2021march232021-onward

For City Retirees, and Taxpayers, Four Questions About Future Health Care

Most City retirees and their dependents are about to be cut loose from traditional Medicare. What happens next?

Seth MoncreaseOctober 13, 2021march232021-onward