Recent Work Incrementalism Three Cheers for Gradualism (Persuasion)Honesty and Incremental Reforms May Be the Keys to Solving Difficult Social Issues (City & State)Do Americans Really Want Bold, Sweeping Change? (New York Daily News)Man Plans, God Laughs: How Not to Reform the Criminal Justice System (Gotham Gazette)In Defense of Incrementalism: A Call for Radical Realism (The Hill)The Justice System Case for Radical Incrementalism (Gotham Gazette)The Challenge of Cultural Change on Rikers Island (Gotham Gazette) Polarization “There Are Very Few Democracies That Are As Polarized As We Are” (The Fulcrum)“Political Polarization Has Become Entertainment” (The Fulcrum)“There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent About Democracy” (The Fulcrum)“Stories About the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us” (The Fulcrum)“We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests” (The Fulcrum) “There Is a Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation” (The Fulcrum) “A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust” (The Fulcrum) “Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For” (The Fulcrum)“A Truly Pluralistic Society Has Both Inclusion and Dissent” (The Fulcrum)“The Problem Comes From the Top” (The Fulcrum)“It’s Time To Be Very Afraid” (The Fulcrum)“We’re in the Danger Zone” (The Fulcrum)“Pluralism Is a Learned Value” (The Fulcrum)Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture (The Fulcrum) Book Reviews Why Not Moderation? (Society)An Obama Administration Veteran Explains How Government Can Do Better (The National Book Review)There Are No Solutions: Making Sense of New York at the End of the 20th Century (And Now) (Vital City)Willing To Be Lucky: Dante Ross and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop in New York (Vital City)The Best Books to Read If You Want Government to Work Better (Shepherd)Book Review: Bleeding Out (New York Law Journal)Can We Stop Both Crime and Incarceration? (Public Books) Culture Excessive Media Criticism Is Only Making the Media Worse (The Hill)How To Be A Man: ‘Rio Bravo’ and the Search for a New Masculinity (The Good Men Project)What Old School Hip-Hop Has to Say About Our Political Moment (Pop Matters) Nonprofit/Leadership Are Nonprofits the Permanent Government of New York City? (City & State)Nolvia Delgado (New York Nonprofit)Nic Dawes (New York Nonprofit)Chloe Breyer (New York Nonprofit)Rich Leimsider (New York Nonprofit)Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What Do Nonprofit Leaders Really Think? (New York Nonprofit) Nora McCarthy (New York Nonprofit)Leaders Must Confront Declining Trust in the Nonprofit World — Before It’s Too Late (Chronicle of Philanthropy)Susan Stamler (New York Nonprofit)What Do Nonprofit Leaders Really Think About Unionization? (New York Nonprofit) Melanie Hartzog (City & State) Frankie Miranda (New York Nonprofit)Debra-Ellen Glickstein (New York Nonprofit)Why the Unhappiness of Nonprofit Leaders Matters (New York Nonprofit)Bill Baccaglini (New York Nonprofit)David Nocenti (New York Nonprofit)Jordyn Lexton (New York Nonprofit)Jose Ortiz (New York Nonprofit)Remembering Herb Sturz: Pioneering Social Entrepreneur (Gotham Gazette)Richard Buery (New York Nonprofit)We All Work at the New York Times Now (Areo)Joe DeGenova (New York Nonprofit)Kym Hardy Watson (New York Nonprofit)Hard Choices: How Can the “Nonprofit Industrial Complex” Do Better? (New York Nonprofit)Paulette LoMonaco (New York Nonprofit) Christie Peale (New York Nonprofit)Vivian Nixon (New York Nonprofit)Ron Richter (New York Nonprofit)A Moment of Reckoning for Nonprofit Leaders (LA Review of Books)Quardean Lewis-Allen (New York Nonprofit)Jennifer Jones Austin (New York Nonprofit)Meg Barnette (New York Nonprofit)Herb Sturz (New York Nonprofit)The Post-COVID Nonprofit (New York Nonprofit)Responding to Race and COVID-19 (New York Nonprofit)Emma Jordan-Simpson (New York Nonprofit)Fatima Shama (New York Nonprofit)John Raskin (New York Nonprofit)Colvin Grannum (New York Nonprofit)Phoebe Boyer (New York Nonprofit)Wayne Ho (New York Nonprofit)Nonprofit Innovators Can Learn From Failure As Well As Success (Chronicle of Philanthropy) JusticeIs It Possible to Get the Effort to Close Rikers Island Back on Track? (City & State)From Pessimism to Optimism and Back Again (Vital City)Hot Spot Policing After Memphis (Vital City)Mend It, Don’t End It: Salvaging Broken Windows (Vital City)Can Nonprofits Help Keep the Peace in New York City? (City & State)Holy Gotham! (Air Mail)No Program Is a Panacea: The Fate of Focused Deterrence (Vital City)Cops, Our Social Fabric and NYC’s Safety (New York Daily News)For Black Cops, Jim Crow Is Not Ancient History (The Crime Report)We’re Not Ready for Police-Free Zones (The Crime Report)America’s Rocky Road to Justice-Informed Policing (The Crime Report)Can We Build an Infrastructure for Violence Prevention? (The Crime Report)View from the Trauma Center: Why Gun Violence Persists (The Crime Report)America’s Justice System Needs a ‘Course Correction” (The Crime Report)“Safety Is Freedom From Trauma” (British Journal of Community Justice)How Hot Spots Policing Can Reduce Community Violence (The Crime Report)The Promise and Peril of Cure Violence in NYC (City & State)Reducing Violence: Why ‘Simple’ Solutions Won’t Work (The Crime Report)‘Invest in Communities’: A Gun Violence Researcher Finds Reason for Hope (The Crime Report)Reducing Violence by Strengthening Communities: Lessons from New York City (Policing Insight)Coping With the “Crisis of Violence” (The Crime Report)A Prison Abolitionist’s Plea: We Need a Better Solution for “Egregious Harm” (The Crime Report)Is New York City’s Spike in Violence A Return to the ‘Bad Old Days’? (The Crime Report)A View from the Future: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom in Criminal Justice (The Hill)COVID-19 and the ‘New Normal’ in Criminal Justice (The Crime Report)Spock Vs. Kirk: The Battle Over NY Bail Reform (The Crime Report)Shutter Island: Lessons from the Campaign to Close Rikers (New York Daily News)The Next Battleground in the Fight to Close the Rikers Island Jails (Gotham Gazette)Why We Need to Rethink Misdemeanor Justice (Governing)A Blueprint for 21st Century Policing (The Hill)The Need to Balance Police Effectiveness and Fairness (Governing)Art, Science, and the Challenge of Justice Reform (The Crime Report)Our Two Kinds of Justice and How to Reconcile Them (Governing) How New York City Reduced Crime and Incarceration (City & State)Reforms Are on the Way to Improve Delivery of Justice (New York Daily News)How the Justice System Can Transform NYC’s “Murder Capital” (The Crime Report)From Broken Windows to Well-Marked Exits (City & State)An Urgent Checklist for Closing Rikers (New York Daily News)Enhancing Fairness, Improving Outcomes (Gotham Gazette)Reducing Jail: A New York Story (Bill Moyers)A Surprising Portrait of the Misdmeanor Criminal (Wall Street Journal)Perceptions Matter: A Roadmap to Reducing Crime (Huffington Post)Broken Windows 2.0 (The Crime Report)Alternatives to Incarceration Are Cutting Prison Numbers, Costs, and Crime (The Guardian) Rethinking the Politics of Crime (The Crime Report)What Lessons Can Business Teach Criminal Justice (Huffington Post)Failures Are Key to Public Safety Success (Philadelphia Inquirer)Trial and Error in the Court System (The Guardian) A Key Role for Failure (National Law Journal)Problem-Solving Courts: A Brief Primer (Law & Policy)