The rise to power of a new urban progressive politics has been a hallmark of the Trump era. From the City Council of Los Angeles and the Board of Alderman of Chicago to the State Legislatures in Sacramento, Springfield, and…

As New Yorkers grapple with an uncertain future, the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and its aftermath are often invoked by the press and politicians. Today, “New York in the 1970s” is shorthand for a city facing poverty and crime,…