Urban Planning and Development

We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms

We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms

Sunlight is not an amenity; it’s a basic human necessity.

Mar 21, 2023 / Kate Wagner

Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex

Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex

Having a personal aesthetic at home has become financially detrimental.

Mar 13, 2023 / Kate Wagner

Protesters blocking traffic

Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis

Welcome to America’s emerging predator state.

Feb 28, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Can New York Make Deadbeat Dolan Stop Freeloading at Madison Square Garden?

Can New York Make Deadbeat Dolan Stop Freeloading at Madison Square Garden? Can New York Make Deadbeat Dolan Stop Freeloading at Madison Square Garden?

If the city and state can’t prevent the Knicks owner from barring his critics, perhaps they can at least shut down his sweetheart tax subsidy.

Feb 21, 2023 / Ross Barkan

Mayor of Berlin giving a speech

Berlin’s Recent Botched Election Breeds Public Distrust Berlin’s Recent Botched Election Breeds Public Distrust

So does the Social Democrats’ failure to address the housing crisis.

Feb 17, 2023 / Andrew Pasquier

Nasty, Brutish, and Short—Chicago-Style

Nasty, Brutish, and Short—Chicago-Style Nasty, Brutish, and Short—Chicago-Style

Lori Lightfoot’s tenure as the city's mayor could be coming to its natural end.

Feb 17, 2023 / J. Duncan Moore Jr.

Trey Lamar speaks at a hearing

Apartheid American-Style Apartheid American-Style

The City of Jackson versus the Mississippi State Legislature.

Feb 16, 2023 / Makani Themba

Flowers and candles at a memorial outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California.

Huu Can Tran’s American Dream Huu Can Tran’s American Dream

The Monterey Park shooter lost his wife and his home. But one totem of assimilation remained within easy reach.

Feb 6, 2023 / Mari Uyehara

Georgia SWAT team dressed in fatigues

Deadly Violence Against Protesters Is the New Normal Deadly Violence Against Protesters Is the New Normal

Our over-militarized police force makes de-escalation unthinkable and violence inevitable—and, in the case of the "Cop City" shooting, lethal.

Feb 3, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

man crosses flooded street in Miami

Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami? Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami?

Daniel Aldana Cohen argues that planning the withdrawal from Miami would force other places to get serious about hosting climate migrants, while Samantha Schuyler says Miami can st...

Feb 3, 2023 / The Debate / Daniel Aldana Cohen and Samantha Schuyler

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