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<title><![CDATA[Nicole Gelinas - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15309.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nicole Gelinas]]></description><category domain="15309">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Hey, Lefties: Shoplifting Isn't Need, It's Just Plain Greed]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/opinion/hey-progressives-shoplifting-isnt-need-its-just-plain-greed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The criminals responsible for a disproportionate percentage of New York City retail theft aren't driven by hunger (or by a desire for clean teeth). They are repeat actors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is Not Normal: Subway Violence Worse Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/opinion/ignore-mamdanis-gaslighting-nyc-subway-violence-is-worse-than-you-remember/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's fatal shoving of 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of Manhattan subway steps is an outrage-inducing sign of New York City's steep decline in transit safety.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Bet on Casinos, New York]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-manhattan-casinos-gambling?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Manhattan resoundingly rejects casino gambling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'will the outer boroughs do the same?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Seconds on a Charlotte Train]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/iryna-zarutska-decarlos-brown-charlotte-crime?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The slaughter of Iryna Zarutska was horrific, unacceptable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and preventable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What I Saw at the Daniel Penny Trial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/what-i-saw-at-the-daniel-penny-trial?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Penny was recently acquitted in the death of Jordan Neely.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bragg's Bizarre Antics Tipped Jury in Daniel Penny's Favor]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/12/15/opinion/braggs-antics-told-daniel-penny-jury-the-trial-was-a-sham/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tossing the top manslaughter charge may have backfired on prosecutors '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and confirmed the defense's case for its baselessness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Regressives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/regressives</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike their predecessors of a century ago, New York's progressives seem dedicated to destroying urban life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Department of Incorrections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-new-york-timess-department-of-incorrections</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather than inform its readers about the potential pitfalls of the city's proposed open-ended debit-card program for migrants, the paper prefers to attack me.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mayor Adams' Plan To Give Illegal Migrants $10K Each]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/inside-mayor-adams-migrant-debit-card-boondoggle-no-bid-bank-gets-50-million-border-crossers-up-to-10000-each/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mayor Adams' debit-card program for migrants has the potential to become an open-ended, multi-billion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing, untraceable cash, used for any purpose.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanctuary Cities and the Never-Ending Money Spigot]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/02/11/opinion/hochul-and-adams-never-ending-migrant-money-spigot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams have been quietly handing out cash to thousands of migrants for nine months.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame the Left: 'Moderate' Democrats Are Failing]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/02/04/opinion/moderate-democrats-like-eric-adams-are-failing-on-the-migrant-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adams turned premier properties on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' both sides of Midtown into anchors of disorder and, as the Times Square migrant attack on NYPD officers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last weekend demonstrated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sanctuary City Money Pit]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/12/03/opinion/mayor-adams-hotel-for-migrants-money-pit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The city has finally, begrudgingly handed over its contract for the Roosevelt Hotel, after months of delay '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and the document offers more questions than answers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Vigilantes Keep Stopping Muggers Instead of Police]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/11/12/opinion/subway-vigilantes-will-continue-until-nyc-deals-with-rampant-crime/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another week, another violent incident in the subway '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' this time, a vigilante firing shots across a subway platform to deter a mugger.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Collapse of the Sanctuary City Dream]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/11/the-collapse-of-new-yorks-immigration-dream/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The city's 'right to shelter' is swiftly unravelling]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, the Random Acts of Violence Aren't Getting Better]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/10/22/no-nyc-subways-still-arent-safe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Janno Lieber'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote in The Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of his riders: We cannot expect them to put up with random acts of violence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Rare' Random Violence Takes Yet Another Life]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/rare-random-violence-that-progressives-dismiss-takes-yet-another-life-in-nyc/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ryan Carson joins Tommy Bailey, Daniel Enriquez, Michelle Go, Charles Moore, Alison Russo and Christina Yuna Lee, just a few victims of last year's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 60'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' stranger-on-stranger murders.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Hide the Cost of Sanctuary City Boondoggles]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/09/24/eric-adams-is-hiding-the-cost-of-the-citys-migrant-boondoggle/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To learn why it's a bad idea for Washington to issue a blank check to Mayor Eric Adams to house an unlimited number of migrants, listen to Thursday's City Council'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hearing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Death at CVS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/death-at-cvs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Times Square's drugstores are the nexus of New York's new disorder.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Finally Interested in a Subway Killing]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/where-was-the-progressive-outrage-when-27-others-were-killed-on-the-subway/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before Jordan Neely's death '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from March 2020 until early April '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' 27 people lost their lives to murder in the subway, many of them also homeless young people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Banks' Too-Big-To-Fail Advantage Builds on Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/04/16/bidens-approach-to-crisis-make-too-big-to-fail-banks-even-bigger/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six weeks into President Joe Biden's first major financial crisis, the White House's approach is clear: make America's biggest banks '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' too big to fail banks from 2008 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' even bigger.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We've Created a Permanent Bank-Bailout Regime]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/americas-permanent-bank-bailout-regime</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government decisions are making America into a nation of big banks, and only big banks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bro-Bank Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/silicon-valley-bank-who-is-to-blame</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easy to blame an out-of-control-tech sector for recent financial failures, but Washington created the monster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Post-Covid States of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-post-covid-states-of-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the pandemic, a survey of gains and losses]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Driven to Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/its-not-just-a-car-loan-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too-low interest rates caused unsustainable growth not just in the auto market, but in the economy at large.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Gambling and Weed as Economic Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/nyc-has-opted-for-economic-development-strategy-tied-to-vice</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gotham's post-pandemic economic-development strategy: gambling and weed]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NY Times Another of Sam Bankman-Fried's Easy Marks]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/11/27/the-new-york-times-is-yet-another-of-sam-bankman-frieds-easy-marks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is showcasing Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen founder of blown-up crypto exchange FTX, at the paper's exclusive Davos-style summit in Manhattan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fast-Food Chains and Dangerous Neighborhoods]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/fast-food-chains-and-urban-disorder</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrasting reactions to rising crime from Starbucks and McDonald's highlight the greater risks minorities in dangerous neighborhoods face.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enough: Our Leaders Must Get Crime Under Control]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/ny-tough-no-enough-our-leaders-must-get-crime-under-control/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a violent attack on New York City itself, it's comforting to spin tales about how tough and resilient we are '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but New Yorkers aren't going to be there for a city that is failing them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left's Weak-on-Crime Policies Profoundly Anti-Woman]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/03/06/nyc-progressives-weak-on-crime-policies-are-profoundly-anti-woman/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Erik Bottcher, my city councilman, says his mother is afraid to come to New York City, worried that she will be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hit.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not wrong. The elected officials who claim to champion women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rights aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t taking women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s justified fears seriously.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo's Downfall: He Also Abused State Resources]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/governor-andrew-cuomos-downfall</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Gelinas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York attorney general'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s damning report portrays Governor Andrew Cuomo as not only a sexual harasser but a misappropriator of state resources.]]></description>
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