In 2025, I wrote about the lessons I learned from Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson, a 20-year-old book that changed the way I keep house. One such lesson involves the “broken windows theory” — and it ...

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BOSTON (AP) – Political scientist James Q. Wilson, whose “broken windows” theory on crime-fighting helped trigger a nationwide move toward community policing, died Friday at a Boston hospital. He was ...

You know of broken-windows theory. It is the insight, promulgated by the social scientists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, that visible signs of disorder, left untended, stimulate further ...

Regarding Walter Russell Mead’s “Stale Foreign-Policy Ideas Imperil America” (Global View, Aug. 20): In the 1990s, Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped revive New York City through a “broken-windows” policy, in ...

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