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Help for Released Prisoners, Richard Greenwald, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6-11-10

Newark’s New Day, Charles Upton Sahm, City Journal Online, 5-6-10

Is Public Sector Wage Growth Moderating?, Josh Barro, Real Clear Markets, 5-4-10

Teacher pensions are a ticking time bomb, Josh Barro, Washington Examiner, 4-28-10

The Beholden State, Steven Malanga, City Journal, Spring 2010

Despite what you've read, paying kids to excel in school does work, Marcus Winters, New York Daily News Online, 4-15-10

The Teacher Pension Nightmare, Josh Barro, Forbes.com, 4-14-10

Decrying the Union Pension Bailout Bill, Diana Furchgott Roth, Real Clear Markets, 04-08-10

Public schools should experiment like charter schools, Marcus Winters, Washington Examiner, 04-07-10

Let's break the cycle of re-arrest and re-imprisonment, Cory Booker, The Star-Ledger, 1-04-10

A Crime Theory Demolished, Heather Mac Donald, Wall Street Journal, 1-05-10

Another MTA Meltdown, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 12-11-09

Bailing Out the States' Bailout, Nicole Gelinas, National Review Online, 12-8-09

Get a Job, Nicole Gelinas, National Review Online, 12-3-09

The Empire State and Eminent Domain, Nicole Gelinas, Wall Street Journal, 11-16-09

To Cleanse the MTA, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 11-11-09

Freeze Wages Now, E.J. McMahon, New York Post, 11-2-09

How charters help kids 'left behind', Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 10-28-09

Data Proves Charter Schools Work, Marcus A. Winters, Washington Examiner, 10-28-09

End the Special-Ed Racket, Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, National Review, 10-19-2009

The Case for Special Education Vouchers, Jay P. Greene, Education Next, 10-07-09

A Teachers' Contract that Helps Kids, Marcus A. Wiinters, New York Post, 10-05-09

California, Here We Come, E.J. McMahon, New York Post, 9-28-09

Funding May Push Special-Ed Labeling, Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 9-23-09

Get control over the pensions, Nicole Gelinas, Newsday, 9-13-09

Remembering Rose Friedman, Guy Sorman, Forbes.com, 08-19-09

Special-Education Stigmatization, Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, Forbes.com, 08-18-09

Special Ed Vouchers Work For Everybody, Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, Washington Examiner, 08-18-09

Exams We Can Rely On, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 07-25-09

Promoting Racial Paranoia, Heather Mac Donald, National Review Online, 7-24-09

N.Y. Labor Unions Are Biting The Hand That Fattens Them, E.J. McMahon, New York Daily News, 07-23-09

Making Prisoner Reentry Work, Richard Greenwald, City Journal, 7-20-09

How New York Became Safe: The Full Story, George L. Kelling, City Journal, 07-17-09

Compstat for Teachers, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal Online, 07-14-09

To Fix Pension Peril, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 07-13-09

Defuse The Pension Bomb, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 07-09-09

Transit for Tomorrow, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal, Special Issue 2009

Don't Cut Cops, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 07-07-09

New York’s Indispensable Institution, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, July 2009

The Budget New York Needs, E.J. McMahon, City Journal, July 2009

Mike & Randi Make a Good Deal; Schoolkids Get a Raw One, Sol Stern, New York Daily News, 06-25-09

Mike & Randi Make a Good Deal; Schoolkids Get a Raw One, Sol Stern, New York Daily News, 06-25-09

Lessons From Abroad, David Gratzer, Testimony, 06-10-09

Puffing The Projects, Howard Husock, New York Post, 06-08-09

Paterson's Veto Pen, Lise Bang-Jensen, New York Post, 06-05-09

A Harlem Tragedy and Its Exploiters, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, June 2009

NY's Pension Peril, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 06-01-09

With some prisoners, a nudge is all that is needed, Anne Piehl, Washington Examiner, 05-27-09

Face Facts on Frisks, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 05-19-09

Public-Housing Hope, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, 05-18-09

Klein's Teacher Hiring Freeze Will Leave City Kids Behind, Marcus A. Winters, New York Daily News, 05-09-09

Lessons In Public Housing, Julia Vitullo-Martin, Forbes.com, 05-06-09

Reentry Programs for Ex-Prisoners Show Promise, Kimberly Hendrickson, Washington Examiner, 04-28-09

For Better Schools, Fix Teacher Pay, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 04-23-09

Public Pension Funds Become Political Playthings, Steven Malanga, RealClearPolitics, 04-22-09

The Union War on Charter Schools, Jay P. Greene, Wall Street Journal, 04-16-09

Pedagogy of the Oppressor, Sol Stern, City Journal, Spring 2009

LAPD High, Laura Vanderkam, City Journal, Spring 2009

Invitation To A Scam How To Safeguard NY Pensions, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 03-21-09

The Dark Figure of British Crime, Claire Berlinski, City Journal, Spring 2009

LAPD High, Laura Vanderkam, City Journal, Spring 2009

Lessons of Charter Schools, Marcus A. Winters, Times Union, 03-20-09

Money for Nothing, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal Online, 03-04-09

Safe Cities, Successful Conservatives, Heather Mac Donald, The Guardian, 02-26-09

Gimme Shelter, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, 02-22-09

Windfall No Cure-All, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 02-19-09

'Public Interest' Lawyers Say Leave the Homeless to Rot, Heather Mac Donald, Wall Street Journal, 02-14-09

Mass Teacher Layoffs + Seniority Rules = Bad News For Kids, Marcus A. Winters, New York Daily News, 02-04-09

Schools Don't Need Snake Oil, Jay P. Greene, Northeast Arkansas Morning News, 02-03-09

Build Big, Mr. President, Howard Husock, City Journal, 1-23-09

The Smart Fiscal Choice, Marcus A. Winters, National Review Online, 01-21-09

Stemming the Tide, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal Online, 01-16-09

Profiling Eric Holder, Heather Mac Donald, Front Page Magazine, 01-15-09

A Threat to Charter Schools, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 01-15-09

We've Had A Solution For The Black-White Reading Gap For Four Decades, John H. McWhorter, The New Republic, 01-14-09

The New Number Crunchers, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal, Winter 2009

Recession-Proof Diversity, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Winter 2009

Slums of Hope, Howard Husock, City Journal, Winter 2009

The New Number Crunchers, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal, Winter 2009

The Year To Come, Heather Mac Donald, National Review Online, 12-30-08

Offer Vouchers for Special Education, Marcus A. Winters, New York Daily News, 12-28-08

Housing Goals We Can't Afford, Howard Husock, The New York Times, 12-11-08

FBI And NYPD Bury The Hatchet, Judith Miller, New York Post, 12-11-08

NYC's Housing Hope, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, 11-19-08

The Test Passes, Colleges Fail, Peter D. Salins, The New York Times, 11-17-08

Grading NYC Schools: How It Helps, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 11-12-08

Notes on the Election, Howard Husock, City Journal, 11-07-08

Challenging tenure in D.C., Marcus A. Winters, Washington Times, 11-05-08

The Financial Crisis and the CRA, Howard Husock, City Journal, 10-30-08

Beyond Bloomberg, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 10-27-08

Nobody Does it Better, Howard Husock, Wall Street Journal, 10-24-08

Cut Public Spending To Save New York, Myron Magnet, Forbes, 10-22-08

Bioterrorism’s Deadly Math, Judith Miller, City Journal, Autumn 2008

Brooklyn's Retail Boom, Julia Vitullo-Martin, Gotham Gazette, 10-14-08

New York For Sale, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, 10-12-08

Strong housing stock, picturesque waterfront help Hudson Valley's Newburgh, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Daily News, 10-10-08

Gold-Plated Pensions, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 10-08-08

Wall Street Explodes, Howard Husock, City Journal, 10-01-08

Long Live the SATs, John H. McWhorter, The New York Sun, 09-25-08

Cutting the High Cost of Housing, Rosemary Scanlon and Hope Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 09-16-08

A Special Plan for Palin, Jay P. Greene, National Review Online, 09-09-08

How UC is Rigging the Admissions Process, Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 09-07-08

Pre-K Can Work, Shepard Barbash, City Journal, Autumn 2008

The Humanities Move Off Campus, Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, Autumn 2008

A Preference for Truth, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Autumn 2008

New York State’s Fiscal Reckoning, E.J. McMahon, City Journal, Autumn 2008

The Plague of Professional Panhandling, Steven Malanga, Dallas Morning News, 08-26-08

NYC Public Housing in Crisis, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Daily News, 08-21-08

Qualified Teachers Wanted, Marcus A. Winters, Washington Times, 08-15-08

How Cop Bashers Menace Minorities, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 08-11-08

Cities You Can Believe In, Heather Mac Donald, WashingtonPost.com, 07-15-08

Gotham Knights, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 07-13-08

Do We Need a Basic Rewrite of No Child Left Behind?, Sol Stern, NewTalk, 07-05-08

Tangled Power Lines, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Online, 06-30-08

Intelligent Policing Comes to New Jersey, Judith Miller, City Journal, Summer 2008

The NYPD Diaspora, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Summer 2008

A Marshall Plan for Reading, Sol Stern, City Journal, Summer 2008

Prison To Work, Howard Husock, New York Post, 05-20-08

Prison To Work, Howard Husock, New York Post, 05-20-08

Justice Served, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 04-28-08

High Incarceration Rate Of Blacks Is Function Of Crime, Not Racism, Heather Mac Donald, Investor's Business Daily, 04-28-08

Hope for Iraq’s Meanest City, Michael J. Totten, City Journal, Spring 2008

Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist?,, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Spring 2008

KIPP vs. the Teachers’ Unions, Marcus A. Winters, City Journal, April 2008

FBI vs. the NYPD, Judith Miller, New York Post, 03-25-08

The Death and Life of Bushwick, Steven Malanga, City Journal, Spring 2008

Story Time, Andrew Klavan, City Journal, Spring 2008

When Kids FAIL, Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 03-19-08

Breaking the Mob, Steven Malanga, New York Post, 02-14-08

For Whom the Roads Toll, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Online, 01-14-08

Students Lose When Diversity Is Main Focus, Jay P. Greene, Investor's Business Daily, 01-08-08

NYPD's Historic Feat Should Quiet Critics, Heather Mac Donald, New York Daily News, 01-06-08

The Resilient Society, Rudolph W. Giuliani, City Journal, Winter 2008

Adding Up to Failure, Catherine Shock, Jay P. Greene, City Journal, Winter 2008

School Choice Isn’t Enough, Sol Stern, City Journal, Winter 2008

The Campus Rape Myth, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Winter 2008

Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”, Howard Husock, City Journal, Winter 2008

Eliot's Excellent Idea, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 01-10-08

In School Reform, Billions of Dollars — But Not Much Bang, Sol Stern, New York Daily News, 11-18-07

Columbia's Cave-In, John Leo, New York Post, 11-17-07

More Marriage Penalties, Howard Husock, The New York Sun, 11-16-07

Sin of Omission, Howard Husock, City Journal, 11-13-07

The Reclamation of Skid Row, Heather Mac Donald, FrontPageMag.com, 11-09-07

Skid Row in Rehab, Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 11-08-07

Tough Love on Skid Row, Heather Mac Donald, Wall Street Journal, 11-02-07

A Bush-Clinton Idea, Howard Husock, The New York Sun, 10-24-07

Merit Pay Will Improve N.Y.’s Schools, Marcus A. Winters, Providence Journal, 10-24-07

The Reclamation of Skid Row, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Autumn 2007

Denver Tackles Crime, New York Style, Alec Magnet, City Journal, Autumn 2007

Radical U., Jacob Laksin, David Horowitz, City Journal, 10-19-07

Klein's Gamble, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 10-16-07

Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal, Autumn 2007

Orlando Vacation from Reality: What Patterson Got Wrong, Heather Mac Donald, National Review Online, 10-01-07

The Blue Front Line, George L. Kelling, Dallas Morning News, 10-01-07

Pulling A 'Fast' One, Sol Stern, New York Post, 10-01-07

Don't make Jena out to be more than it is, Heather Mac Donald, Dallas Morning News, 09-30-07

The DA's Misguided Move, George L. Kelling, The Boston Globe, 09-26-07

Building Bridges, Matthew Clavel, City Journal, Autumn 2007

Children in The Lurch, John H. McWhorter, The New York Sun, 09-06-07

False Prophet, Sol Stern, City Journal, Autumn 2007

Notes from the Underground, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Online, 08-23-07

The Crumbling of America, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Online, 08-03-07

Cop Killers in High Places, Heather Mac Donald, FrontPageMag.com, 07-23-07

Pensions & Plunder, Nicole Gelinas, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 07-19-07

NYPD's Intelligence Advantage, Judith Miller, New York Post, 07-16-07

A Grand Tax-Code Bargain, Howard Husock, City Journal, 07-13-07

Risk Worth Taking, Edward Glaeser, The New York Sun, 07-10-07

Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago, Jay P. Greene, National Review Online, 07-03-07

NY’s Mini-Blackout Warning, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Online, 06-29-07

A New Alphabet, John H. McWhorter, The New York Sun, 06-28-07

Grading Mayoral Control, Sol Stern, Townhall.com, 06-26-07

Mayor Mike's Poverty Perversity, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 06-21-07

On the Front Line in the War on Terrorism, Judith Miller, City Journal, Summer 2007

Turning a Profit for the Projects, Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, 06-07-07

Grading Mayoral Control, Sol Stern, City Journal, Summer 2007

The Peace Racket, Bruce Bawer, City Journal, Summer 2007

Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago, Brian Kisida, Jay P. Greene, Jonathan Butcher, City Journal, Summer 2007

Why Study War?, Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, Summer 2007

Accounting, Texas-Style, E. J. McMahon, Wall Street Journal, 05-29-07

Bullying The FDNY, Heather Mac Donald, New York Post, 5-24-07

One Bad Day, Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 05-20-07

Cool it, LAPD bashers, Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 05-20-07

Does Bratton deserve five more years?, With contribution by Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 05-06-07

Save The Catholic Schools, Sol Stern, New York Post, 05-01-07

Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Spring 2007

Baghdad on the Bayou, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal, Spring 2007

Broken Windows Turns 25, Charles Upton Sahm, City Journal, Spring 2007

A Civil Solution, Heather Mac Donald, Frontpagemag.com, 03-28-07

Math And Marxism, Sol Stern, New York Post, 03-20-07

Bringing Back the Campus, John H. McWhorter, The New York Sun, 03-08-07

Cory Booker’s Battle for Newark, Steven Malanga, City Journal, Spring 2007

Save the Catholic Schools!, Sol Stern, City Journal, Spring 2007

Out-in-Left-Field Trips, Marc Holley, Jay P. Greene, Matthew Carr, City Journal, Spring 2007

Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, John H. McWhorter, The New York Sun, 02-22-07

Mike's Pension Misfire, E. J. McMahon, New York Post, 01-22-07

To Stop Gangs, Call the Scouts, Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, 01-21-07

The Right Way Of Policing, George L. Kelling, New York Post, 01-21-07

The Compassion Gap, Howard Husock, City Journal, 01-18-07

Blaming New York's Finest, Heather Mac Donald, FrontPageMag.com, 01-18-07

No, the Cops Didn’t Murder Sean Bell, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Winter 2007

Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Winter 2007

Free Inquiry? Not on Campus, John Leo, City Journal, Winter 2007

This Bush Education Reform Really Works, Sol Stern, City Journal, Winter 2007

How Not to Do It, Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Winter 2007

Badillo Urges Greater Focus on Education and, Cities on a Hill Newsletter, Winter 2007

The Real Scandal, Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 10-26-06

Liberal Blinders, Howard Husock, City Journal, 09-08-06

Public Pension Price Tag, E. J. McMahon, Wall Street Journal, 08-21-06

Defusing New York's Pension Bomb, E. J. McMahon, ECNY Special Report, 06-07-06

Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006, Howard Husock, City Journal, 04-27-06

Why Hollywood Loves Johnny Cash—and not Merle Haggard, Howard Husock, City Journal, 01-13-06

New Philanthropists Talk Left, Act Right, Howard Husock, City Journal, Winter 2006

Legislators Still Aim to Sweeten Public Pensions, E. J. McMahon, Fiscalwatch Memo, 08-14-05

The Biggest Public Pension Investment Policy Shift You've Probably Never Heard Of, E. J. McMahon, Nicole Gelinas, Fiscalwatch Memo, 06-13-05

America’s Most Successful Communist, Howard Husock, City Journal, Summer 2005

A Permanent Pension-Fund Fix For San Diego, Nicole Gelinas, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 06-01-05

Pension Funds vs. Free Speech, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal, Spring 2005

Pension Plan Needs Adjusting, E. J. McMahon, The Post-Standard, 02-22-05

Today, Guns Are Butter, Howard Husock, City Journal, 01-31-05

Meddling by Public Pension Funds Is Picking California's Pocket, Nicole Gelinas, Los Angeles Times, 01-14-05

Meddling by Public Pension Funds Is Picking California's Pocket, Nicole Gelinas, Los Angeles Times, 1-14-05

Start the Revolution, E. J. McMahon, New York Daily News, 01-09-05

Corporate America's New Stealth Raider, Nicole Gelinas, City Journal, Winter 2005

Reining in Housing Vouchers, Howard Husock, City Journal, 10-26-04

The Anti-War Hero, Howard Husock, City Journal, 07-30-04

The Housing Reform That Backfired, Howard Husock, City Journal, Summer 2004

San Diego Needs Fundamental Pension Reform, E. J. McMahon, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 04-23-04

The Real Miracle, Howard Husock, City Journal, Spring 2004

Hope on Housing Policy, Howard Husock, City Journal, 02-11-04

State Pension System Needs Broad Overhaul, E. J. McMahon, Newsday, 01-13-04

Manhattan Institute Calls for Reform of Public Employee Pension System, Cities on a Hill Newsletter, Winter 2003/2004

When They Say “Community,” Watch Your Wallet, Howard Husock, City Journal, 05-02-03

Real Public Housing Reform, Howard Husock, City Journal, Spring 2003

Real Public Housing Reform, Howard Husock, City Journal, 02-12-03

How Public Housing Harms Cities, Howard Husock, City Journal , Winter 2003

Housing Humbug, Howard Husock, City Journal, Autumn 2002

Crime-Wave Blues, Howard Husock, City Journal , Autumn 2002

A Public Housing Victory, Howard Husock, City Journal, 03-29-02

Lion in a Jungle, Howard Husock, City Journal, Spring 2002

Don’t Hike Gotham’s Cab Fares, Howard Husock, City Journal, 02-26-02

Don’t Let CDCs Fool You, Howard Husock, City Journal, Summer 2001

Adios, San Fernando Valley, Howard Husock, City Journal, Autumn 2001

How Charlotte Is Revolutionizing Public Housing, Howard Husock, City Journal, Spring 2000

Let’s End Housing Vouchers, Howard Husock, City Journal, Autumn 2000

The Frozen Neighborhood, Howard Husock, City Journal, Autumn 2000

The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities, Howard Husock, City Journal, Winter 2000

 

 

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