Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

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Should the poem on the Statue of Liberty guide U.S. immigration policy ... Just 14% said the copper-clad sculpture should be sent back, and 21% said they weren’t sure. Here, again, there were slight ...

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Not penalising those who are, in many cases, are too ill or disabled to ever work. “Reports suggest ministers have had a change of heart and are about to ditch their harsh plans to target those on ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.