Readings for Fall 2025:

• Sept 15: Rachel Holiday Smith, “Can Zohran Mamdani Really Freeze the Rent?” The City. 2 Sept., 2025. https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/02/rent-freeze-mamdani-affordable-housing-stabilized-apartments/
• Sept 25: Bring in your own article about housing, gentrification or neighborhood change in your borough.
• Oct 9: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Cell One.” From The Thing Around Your Neck. 2009. (Story will be available on Brightspace.) 
• Oct 23: Jill Lepore, “The Invention of Police.” The New Yorker. 13 July, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police
• Oct 30: Jamil Jan Kochai, “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.” from The Haunting of Hajji Hotek and Other Stories. 2022. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain
• Nov 6: TBA
• Nov 13: Bring in your own exemplar article about the same beat that you’ve chosen for the Local Report project. 
• Nov 20: Karen Weise and Noam Scheiber, “Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Landmark Win for Labor.” The New York Times. 1 April, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/technology/amazon-union-staten-island.html
• Dec 1: Michael Luo, “History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism.” The New Yorker. 5 January, 2025. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/historys-lessons-on-anti-immigrant-extremism
• also Dec 1: Mark Peterson (photographer) with comment by Jordan Salama, “ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation.” The New Yorker. 4 August, 2025. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/ices-spectacle-of-intimidation

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