By Mary Alice MillerWhen Puerto Rico defaulted on its debt a few years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, family and friends in New York watched as the territory’s schools and hospitals closed and people lost their pensions. Several high-risk hedge...

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeWill Bed Stuy’s beloved Smurf Village become a cut-and-paste condo complex?The Brooklyn neighborhood has been gentrified at an alarmingly shocking pace; multi-decades-old Black businesses and Black-owned or traditionally Black folk-rented homes are being replaced by a new population–some call them transplants. So,...