Frederique is also an advocate for New York City’s controversial supervised consumption sites. This despite the minimal ...

Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. He authored The Human City: ...

Last week, my colleague Ryan Thorpe and I broke a story about widespread fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota. Members of the state’s Somali community allegedly participated in complex schemes ...

Sergio Hyland seemed like the perfect advocate. Calling himself a “fierce, relentless, implacable abolitionist,” determined to end incarceration in the United States, Hyland had spent more than two ...

For decades, as the American economy tilted toward white-collar work, big urban counties thrived. Cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco boomed on the back of fast-growing service ...

The Chicago city budget that Mayor Brandon Johnson has put forward for 2026 offers a clear window into his mayoralty. Beneath the technical language and spreadsheets lies a simple reality: it is ...

MECA’s Teach Palestine lesson plans reach up to 160,000 American teachers who go on to share those materials with young, ...

Zohran Mamdani’s promise to “freeze the rent” was central to his affordability-focused mayoral campaign. But delivering on that promise isn’t something that he can do himself. Rather, Mamdani will ...

Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst, working primarily on government accountability and transparency through MI’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) efforts. He deploys open-records ...

During the late stages of his mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani—looking to give his candidacy a more moderate veneer—committed to asking NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch to remain at the helm of the ...