Mr. Abrams is a professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, and a senior…
We commonly talk about public safety in terms of violent crime, patrol strength, and policy. Yet cities depend just as much — perhaps more — on something quieter: shared norms of restraint.

The governor’s move risks legitimizing a movement openly hostile to the values that sustain New York and America.

A contest that seems out of reach in August can become a dead heat by October.


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