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The SHSAT Discourse is Broken
What the media (and everyone else) gets wrong
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The Future Was Born in the 2000s
9/11, American Idol, and the rise of the new populism
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There's More to Come
So many ideas, not always enough time
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Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear
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Where Democrats Lost
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Eric Adams and the Weapon of Identity
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Why is the NYPD So Powerful?
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The Three Factions of the American Left
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Will the Failure of Governing Matter?
Eric Adams and the future of New York
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The Trouble With Book Readings
A case for conversation
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Does Philadelphia Offer Any Lessons for Eric Adams?
A Black moderate triumphs
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A Writers' Project
Here's a little experiment
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I Don't Miss the Newsroom
A belated response to Maureen Dowd
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Three Years on Substack
Thank you for coming along for the ride
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The Tragedy of Jordan Neely
What a subway killing says about policing, the law-and-order right, and the progressive left
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Political Currents by Ross Barkan
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