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Why Don’t Go Is a Must Read If You’re Seeking a Shot of Hope
Why Don’t Go Is a Must Read If You’re Seeking a Shot of Hope

Overwhelmed by news accounts of social division and distrust? A new book highlights individual disrupters creating an alternative narrative.

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Bruce CoryJanuary 8, 2025jan2025-onwards
The Difference We Make – Together
The Difference We Make – Together

A year-end message from the executive director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.

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Bruce CoryDecember 18, 2024sept2024-onwards
Finding the Truth in Fiction: Great 2024 Works from The New School Community
Finding the Truth in Fiction: Great 2024 Works from The New School Community

A Decameron of New York’s Covid lockdown, and other tales of our time.


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Bruce CoryDecember 11, 2024sept2024-onwards
Taking the Measure of Our Time:  Great 2024 Nonfiction from the New School Community
Taking the Measure of Our Time: Great 2024 Nonfiction from the New School Community

Titles that capture the moral, philosophical, and political challenges we face.

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Bruce CoryDecember 4, 2024sept2024-onwards
Looking for Reform in All the Wrong Places: Why Can’t We Get Home Health Care Right?
Looking for Reform in All the Wrong Places: Why Can’t We Get Home Health Care Right?

Welcome to the latest battle in New York’s long, losing Medicaid wars.

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Bruce CoryNovember 27, 2024sept2024-onwards
Who Suffers When Hospitals Close? The Pandemic Offers Some Lessons.
Who Suffers When Hospitals Close? The Pandemic Offers Some Lessons.

Whatever the outcome for Beth Israel may be, it’s long past time for a fuller public dialogue about the wise and fair allocation of hospital resources across the city and state.

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Bruce CoryNovember 20, 2024sept2024-onwards
A Tightening Middle-Class Squeeze – And Other Tales of Post-Pandemic New York
A Tightening Middle-Class Squeeze – And Other Tales of Post-Pandemic New York

The long pandemic economic slump is behind us – but income inequality is growing, too. 


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Bruce CoryNovember 13, 2024sept2024-onwards
Lagging Reforms Mean Lingering Hazards in Private Waste Collection
Lagging Reforms Mean Lingering Hazards in Private Waste Collection

Five years after a landmark local law passed, private waste haulers still put up troubling safety numbers.

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Bruce CoryNovember 6, 2024sept2024-onwards
 A Sham Process: New Yorkers Deserve Better Than How Charter Changes Got on the Ballot
A Sham Process: New Yorkers Deserve Better Than How Charter Changes Got on the Ballot

Voters face choices about how exercises power, and how, that were framed via a rushed and shambolic process.

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Bruce CoryOctober 30, 2024sept2024-onwards
What It Means When Your Community Is Labeled ‘Nowhere’
What It Means When Your Community Is Labeled ‘Nowhere’

If a bustling working- class neighborhood is described as “empty,” is that a prelude to gentrification and displacement?

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Bruce CoryOctober 23, 2024sept2024-onwards
Let’s Encourage – Not Thwart – Older  Immigrant Students Eager to Learn
Let’s Encourage – Not Thwart – Older Immigrant Students Eager to Learn

Bureaucratic hurdles notwithstanding, thousands of older newcomer students are determined to continue their disrupted educations. 

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Bruce CoryOctober 16, 2024sept2024-onwards
Why Criminalizing Homelessness Is a Dangerous Dead End
Why Criminalizing Homelessness Is a Dangerous Dead End

A Supreme Court decision permitting penalties for sleeping and camping outdoors leads to legal confusion, hostility, and the potential for heightened human misery.

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Bruce CoryOctober 9, 2024sept2024-onwards
From Bodegas to Boutiques: The Changing Face of Retailing Shows Gentrification’s Effects
From Bodegas to Boutiques: The Changing Face of Retailing Shows Gentrification’s Effects

How Williamsburg’s shopping district transformed as the neighborhood went upscale.

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Bruce CoryOctober 2, 2024sept2024-onwards
‘Every Issue Is a Women’s Issue’
‘Every Issue Is a Women’s Issue’

A veteran policymaker argues that reproductive freedom – while crucial – is only one of the key issues for women, nationally and locally.

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Bruce CorySeptember 25, 2024sept2024-onwards
A Personal Telling, And a Battle Cry
A Personal Telling, And a Battle Cry

The personal is political: Looking at decisions about reproductive choice, 50-plus years ago, and today.

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Bruce CorySeptember 18, 2024sept2024-onwards
Covid Reshuffled New York’s Economy. How a Fairer Deal Could Be in the Cards.
Covid Reshuffled New York’s Economy. How a Fairer Deal Could Be in the Cards.

Can New Yorkers resilience and diversity counter a post-pandemic rise in poverty and inequality? 

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Bruce CorySeptember 11, 2024sept2024-onwards
Recovering and Celebrating a Legacy Of Activism and Determination
Recovering and Celebrating a Legacy Of Activism and Determination

The past, as William Faulkner said, is never dead – or even past. A new look at the roots of Brooklyn’s Black communities shows why.

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Bruce CorySeptember 4, 2024sept2024-onwards
Taking the Sad Measure Of the ‘Better FAFSA’ Fiasco
Taking the Sad Measure Of the ‘Better FAFSA’ Fiasco

How did the college aid process run amok this year? Let us count the ways.

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Bruce CoryJune 26, 2024jan2024-onwards
It’s Halftime in the Rollout of NYC Reads. What’s the Score?
It’s Halftime in the Rollout of NYC Reads. What’s the Score?

The nation’s largest public school system is undertaking a massive makeover in literacy instruction.

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Bruce CoryJune 19, 2024jan2024-onwards
How Covid-19 Set Back Progress For Newark’s Young People
How Covid-19 Set Back Progress For Newark’s Young People

More than 18 percent of Newark older teens and young adults aren’t in school or working. That’s roughly double the rate for New Jersey as a whole.

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Bruce CoryJune 12, 2024jan2024-onwards
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