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Rise of the Facebook-Killers

At the pinnacle of the social network's success, its critics are busy building its replacements

Royally Fracked: Those 40,000 Comments on Hydraulic Fracturing Don't Change Anything

Remember how New York's citizens, many of them not too keen on having chemicals blasted into underground rock to extract natural gas, recently submitted 40,000 comments to the state's environmental agency? That public comment period on highly polemic hydraulic fracturing came to a close earlier th ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Honor Roll for 2010

NYPD's Stop-and-Frisks Often Lack Legal Basis, Study Says

​The NYPD's stop-and-question policy suffers another hit today, as a Columbia Law School study concludes that cops often stopped people without a legal basis to do so, and didn't properly fill out the form for the stop.

Clip Job: Ed Koch in Mississippi

 Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 3, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 46The Mississippi FrontBy Edward I. KochOn August 17, 1964, I left Jackson, Mississippi, to attend a court hearing in Laurel, Mississippi, two hours away by car. Court started at 3 p.m. at City Hall. The hear ... More >>

My Brother the Slumlord

Going public is something Amy Neustein never could resist

Obama's First 100 Days

After ending American torture, will we prosecute those who ordered other war crimes?

DARK SECRETS

Writers and lawyers discuss human rights in a post-9/11 world

Frisk Management

How the NYPD's blackly grim stop-and-frisk numbers got whitewashed

Hoop Screams

A Crooked Ref? Commissioner Stern's got much bigger problems

The Man Who Wanted to Know Too Much

Why does Walter Mack keep getting fired?

Supreme Court Strikes Fear

Reprimanded by the Supreme Court, the Bush administration rushes to evade punishment

Walking While Black

The bill of rights for black men

Columbia Implodes!

Proceedings will not be tape-recorded, and the report will not be for the public

Defeat Bush: The Guide

No one is overqualified to work for John Kerry

The GOP as Charity Case

Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

The Man Who Would Be Kings

Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

The Anti-Tax Governor's Tax Haven

Pataki Grabs Bush Bonanza, Makes 'Offshore' Investment

Jeb & George

Bush Slated to Pay Top Dollar for Libby Pataki’s Florida Land

Acme of His Career

‘New York Press’ Editor Needs Ethics Lesson

Supreme Court Redeemed

A Jolt of Justice for All Voters

Is the Supreme Court Disgraced?

A Judicial Coup d'État?

How Columbia Can Save Itself

Confronting Your Accusers

Blind Justice on Morningside Heights

'Students Gave Up Their Rights'

Walk Black Live

Readers Respond to ‘The Bill of Rights for Black Men’

Walking While Black

The Bill of Rights for Black Men

Mario Menéndez vs. the Drug War

He’s the Voice of the Mexican People

Letters

The Anti-Kazan

Campaigning For Clemency

Just before Christmas Governor Pataki is expected to commute the sentences of a few state prisoners. Will any of these women get lucky?