Why I’ll Be Teaching Outside This Fall
For weeks, I’ve been telling colleagues, administrators, anyone who would listen, really, that I plan to teach all my…
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Kim Phillips-Fein: What NYC’s Fiscal Crisis of the 1970s Can Teach Us Today
The author of ‘Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis And The Rise of Austerity Politics,’ offers insight.
I’ve Survived the COVID Pandemic. So Far. Now What?
As playwright Karen Malpede emerges from lockdown, she reflects on the meaning of life and creativity in an age of systems collapse.
Phara Souffrant Forrest: Chronic Understaffing Continues to Plague NY Hospitals
The nurse and candidate for central Brooklyn’s 57th Assembly District calls for mandated safe staffing ratios that will save lives.
Samelys López: We Need Public Medicine for Public Health
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how broken healthcare is in the Bronx and all around the United States. Big…
CUNY Students Cope with COVID Fallout
As May came to a close, final exams were the least of Abrar Rahman’s worries. Rahman, a rising junior…
A Mutual Aid Network Blooms in Bay Ridge
In organizational theory, mutual aid means the exchange of services or resources in which both parties benefit. Mutual aid…
Contact Tracing: Is Our Data Safe in Bloomberg’s Hands?
The former mayor’s history of stop and frisk and surveillance raises troubling concerns.
COVID & George Floyd Killing Reveal a Failed State That Only Knows How to Police
The failure of our governments — local, state, national — to address COVID-19 with any real rigor is the…
Now is the Time to Pass the New York Health Act
“Now is not the time.” Leaders and opinion writers utter this sentence so often after mass shootings in the…
