Lisa Yun Lee

The Stonewall National Monument visitor center, near the Stonewall National Monument in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York on Feb. 13, 2025. The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, the latest step in the Trump administration's campaign to insist that the federal government recognize only two genders: male and female. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

Alison Cuddy and Lisa Yun Lee: Stonewall and other monuments must not be used as a weapon

March 11, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Monuments like Stonewall have been challenged and even removed in recent years, but we need more memorials, not less.

A rendering of the future National Public Housing Museum during a groundbreaking ceremony, Oct. 11, 2022, at the site of the remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes in Little Italy.

Lisa Yun Lee: Ignoring the need for affordable housing is no longer an option

October 17, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

In her 2020 book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," author Isabel Wilkerson has some astute observations about American life. Her conclusions can also be applied to housing access in...

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