A sense of common destiny with Africa ebbs and flows in New York's gentrifying black enclave.

He claimed that he's narrowed the achievement gap, but his record indicates otherwise.

In the Age of Bloomberg, America’s most iconic big city is also its most unequal.

In a neighborhood immune to gentrification, a different model of revitalization is required.

After Boston, we must proceed with caution—and respect the rule of law.

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.

An elite nonprofit no one’s ever heard of has turned New York into a city of tall towers and tony boulevards.

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

Rinku Sen on the Associated Press's decision to "drop the 'i' word," Robert Dreyfuss on Hagel's bad budget rhetoric, and the editors on a prize for Nation illustrator Steven Brodner.