Budgets are moral documents, and when it comes to New York City’s fiscal blueprint, the budget is also an opportunity to imagine the city we want to build. As Mayor Adams and the City Council negotiate a final budget next month, the mayor’s latest offer lacks imagination.
May 2, 2023 Police AccountabilityWe are just six months into the inaugural and historic U.S. Supreme Court term of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s not too early to take a first look at her work.
April 6, 2023 Criminal Justice Reform Reproductive Rights and JusticeSince bail reform was passed in 2019, it has saved some of New York’s poorest families tens of millions of dollars, allowed thousands of people to contribute to their communities instead of risking their lives in deadly jails, and reduced our state’s addiction to the mass incarceration of people
March 24, 2023 Criminal Justice ReformBuffalo Public Schools has a suspension crisis.
March 8, 2023 Education School-to-Prison PipelineMayor Eric Adams’s outlandish comments during an interfaith breakfast Tuesday criticizing the nation’s constitutionally mandated separation of church and state were playing with fire. “Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state.
March 2, 2023 Freedom of Speech and ReligionThe killing of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers arose from what has become an American flashpoint of race and brutality: the police stop of a vehicle.
February 24, 2023 Stop-and-Frisk Practices Due Process and Justice