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Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Got Married Because of 'The New Deal'

    Eric Cantor met his wife in a liberal hotbed. The Republican House majority leader apparently went on a blind date with his wife, Diana, at The New Deal, a now-defunct SoHo restaurant with an FDR motif. As detailed by the Observer, the fiscal conservative told the Association for a Better New York ... More >>

  • Books

    November 23, 2011

    Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

    Bookshelf cower power

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Barack Obama Speaks on Dismal June Unemployment Numbers

    ​In a humbling morning for our country today, President Obama spoke to the press about the dismal June unemployment numbers -- we're now at 9.2% unemployment, with a mere 18,000 jobs added last month -- while Americans stood by to watch the bittersweet launch of the Atlantis, marking the last ... More >>

  • Art

    June 22, 2011

    Hello Hello Ai Weiwei

    Will the Chinese star's detention force the art world to better confront human rights?

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    McSorley's, Legendary NYC Bar, Forced to Dust Chicken Bone Chandelier

    ​At McSorley's in the East Village, there's a chandelier (more of a mobile, really) made of poultry wishbones. Since the watering hole has been around since the 1850s, the decoration skews older -- "that portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or that wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth," for i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Rightbloggers Denounce the Wealthy, Treasonous Schoolteachers of Wisconsin

    The effort by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-led state legislature to deprive the state's teachers of collective bargaining rights was catnip to rightbloggers last week. This is because it involves two of their traditional objects of hatred: Unions and public education. You kno ... More >>

  • Art

    December 15, 2010

    2010's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

    An assassin for Christmas, or maybe some witchcraft and depraved subordia?

  • Film

    March 24, 2010

    Waking Sleeping Beauty

    A documentary about the lucrative rebirth of Disney's animation arm between the years 1984 and 1994

  • Columns

    January 12, 2010

    Gunning for the Working Families Party

    Landlords, lawyers fire at will

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Clip Job: Ed Koch Upsets Republican Incumbent for City Council

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 17, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 5 Koch Upsets Incumbent, But No Other Surprises All the incumbents who ran in the Greenwich Village area won election on November 8, except Republican Councilman Woodward Kingman, who was defeated by D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Morgenthau Night at the Javits Center

    ​Being Veterans Day eve, it was fitting that past and present employees of the Manhattan District Attorney's office gathered last night to honor their outgoing boss, Robert Morgenthau, who has headed the office since 1975. Morgenthau is a veteran of the Second World War where he served as a L ... More >>

  • Film

    September 8, 2009

    Tracking a Southern Voyage with Walt & El Grupo

    ​Being Veterans Day eve, it was fitting that past and present employees of the Manhattan District Attorney's office gathered last night to honor their outgoing boss, Robert Morgenthau, who has headed the office since 1975. Morgenthau is a veteran of the Second World War where he served as a L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Ronald Reagan's "Backdoor Socialism": Studies in Crap Reveals The Counterfeit Candidate

    Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.The Counterfeit CandidateAuthor: Kent H. SteffgenPublisher: National Issues, Las VegasDat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Au Revoir Morgenthau: D.A. to Retire

    Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau will not run for reelection this year, says the Times. That's too bad. Morgenthau has served in the office since 1975. His skills were forged in an altogether livelier era of New York criminality, and seem not to have declined with age, as was shown in Tom Robbins' r ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2009

    Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times at the Movies Again

    Brother, can you spare $12?

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    From the Crap Archives: Weep No More, My Lady

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Clip Job: JFK Will Lead Tory Revival

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Son of Son of Sam: amNY Considers Possible 70s New York Repeat

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Rightbloggers' New Hope for McCain Victory: Bill Ayers and Herbert Hoover

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    A.M. 7-28-08: Big Oil Agitprop, Hamptons Gloom, Release the Hounds

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Possibly 4th Street: Black Lips Sing About STDs

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 27, 2007

    Horoscope

    Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Weep No More, My Lady Author: W.E. Debnam Publisher: The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: 1950 ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2007

    Skirting the Issues

    Will Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in the clothes horse race?

  • News

    February 20, 2007

    The Obama Agenda

    Crowds love the candidate, but can he run a presidency on hope?

  • News

    January 9, 2007

    Our Human Rights Show

    Countries abusing their prisoners say they are following America's practices

  • NYC Life

    January 24, 2006

    Gouge Away

    Introducing our Overpriced Cocktail Hall of Shame

  • News

    April 26, 2005

    Whose Constitution Wins?

    As Democrats wonder what their party stands for, here is a way to reach more Americans

  • Specials

    December 7, 2004

    Letters

    As Democrats wonder what their party stands for, here is a way to reach more Americans

  • News

    August 31, 2004

    Convention of Hate

    The presidency cannot be built—and should not be won—on slander and vitriol.

  • News

    June 15, 2004

    Campaign Trailers

    Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    The Oversight Years

    Reagan: the pol who taught us not to pay attention to what's going on

  • News

    June 1, 2004

    Bush Takes a Ride in Reagan's Wake

    Days of mourning, days of campaigning

  • Film

    May 11, 2004

    Film

    Days of mourning, days of campaigning

  • Specials

    April 20, 2004

    Letters

    Days of mourning, days of campaigning

  • News

    March 23, 2004

    The Meaning of Clarke

    A civil servant speaks up? There's nothing the right-wingers hate more.

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2004

    The Debate: Believe It or Not

    A civil servant speaks up? There's nothing the right-wingers hate more.

  • Art

    August 19, 2003

    From Spicy to Subversive

    Curatorial Challenge: Separating Artistry From Misogyny

  • Film

    July 22, 2003

    All That You Can Be

    Once Upon a Time in America

  • News

    November 12, 2002

    Nation

    Once Upon a Time in America

  • News

    July 30, 2002

    Rounding Up the 'Enemy'

    Sixty Years After It Jailed Japanese Americans, Would the U.S. Consider Another Ethnic Internment?

  • News

    January 8, 2002

    Civil Liberties War Among Jews

    Only One Jewish Group Versus Ashcroft

  • News

    January 1, 2002

    Giuliani = La Guardia? NOT!

    How Rudy Stacks Up Against His Hero

  • News

    December 11, 2001

    Getting Back Our Rights

    Don’t Brood and Despair. Organize!

  • News

    October 24, 2000

    Proxy Music

    Electing the Pop Star in Chief

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Inside New York's Foster Care System

    34,000 Kids Trying to Catch a Break

  • News

    May 2, 2000

    Ill Wind

    In Politics, Image Trumps Medical Reality

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Sanctioned Sadism

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

  • News

    April 27, 1999

    History at Its Source

    'Nice Jewish Ladies Rampaged Through the City'

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    Is the Party Over?

    Ray Harding Throws His Weight Behind the Improbable Betsy

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