Richard Nixon

Humanzing Angela Davis in Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

A Fierce Green Fire Burns Unevenly

The House I Live In Pushes the Straight Dope

Powerful voices (but not the director's) explain the failed war on drugs

Live: The Songwriters Hall Of Fame Awards Roll Back To The '70s

43rd Annual Songwriters Hall Of Fame Awards Marriott Marquis Thursday, June 14 Better than: Disco roller derby. If you closed your eyes and listened to the parade of songs and familiar voices emanating from the Marriott Marquis' luminary-packed sixth-floor ballroom last night, you might have tho ... More >>

Why Is Weed Illegal?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently came out in favor of pot policy reform, announcing Monday that he wanted to decriminalize public displays of just less than one ounce of weed. As we reported then, the move was heralded by pretty much everyone, except maybe Republicans in Albany. Just today, the Wall Str ... More >>

VIDEO: Proof that L. Ron Hubbard Was the Most Awesome Human Being Ever

Just a few weeks after the Scientologists at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida experienced it for themselves, here it is: video from this year's L. Ron Hubbard birthday event. On March 13, LRH would have turned 101 years old (if he hadn't so wisely dropped his meat body in 1986 to research hig ... More >>

Representative Michael Grimm Defends Himself Against Allegations of Illegal Fundraising

Staten Island Republicans opened their brand-new headquarters this weekend, and local leaders took the opportunity to defend Congressman Michael Grimm. The rep was recently accused of raising illegal funds by an article in The New York Times. Grimm gave a speech about his dog Sebastian, which brings ... More >>

Scientology Capsize: Commenters of the Week!

The scene here in the underground bunker is like the quiet after a major storm. A hurricane blew up out of the Caribbean this week and hit us square on. The place is a mess. The cats are skittish. But the excitement has finally died down a bit, the lights are low, the empty bottles have been cleared ... More >>

The FBI's Village Voice Files: 'It Is a Well-Known Hippie Paper'

​The FBI has released a cache of documents about the Village Voice dating from 1969 to 1997 that are now available under FOIA. Bomb threats! Contras! Secret lists! Ed Koch vs. J. Edgar Hoover! First up: were Village Voice subscribers in the '70s added to a creepy secret government list? A le ... More >>

To Save and Project Fest: Long Live Cinema!

For a month at MOMA, digital is not the savior of cinema

Cesar Chavez Has a Picnic in Central Park

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 24, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 34 'I'll never eat iceberg lettuce again' By Jack Newfield Perhaps America's greatest citizen was in New York last week. And nobody noticed. Clifford Irving, the Zippies, and Tiny Tim were on the 6 o'clo ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Roger Stone Backs Away from Paladino, but Can't Get Rid of the Stink of Scott Rothstein

​In an odd week in the gubernatorial campaign, the oddest moment was Roger Stone's NY1 appearance on Tuesday, when he appeared to be trying to put miles of distance between himself and Carl Paladino, whose September primary victory Stone engineered. This grew even odder when Palad ... More >>

Carl Paladino, Angry Man, Beats His Own Party

​No matter what your politics you have to admit Republicans yesterday went for the guy with a lot more pop in his bat -- literally. Just three months ago, all Carl Paladino, the wealthy gun-slinging landlord from Buffalo who will now carry the GOP banner for governor, could muster at the Repub ... More >>

Charlie Rangel's Back Pages: 'If I Can Be a Congressman, Anybody Can Be a Congressman.'

​As we wait to learn the fate of Charlie Rangel, that old Harlem lion who may be hit with a telephone-sized House ethics complaint any minute now unless he cuts a deal to cop a plea, it's a good time for a short trot down memory lane. Here are a few takes from the Voice's (very spotty) digital ... More >>

Cannes Jury of One

Carlos wuz robbed

Post Exposé: Naked Cowboy Lives in Jersey, Works Out

The New York Post civic-mindedly presents readers with "The Truth About the Naked Cowboy," which comes in the form of an at-home profile of the recently-announced mayoral candidate. We are told that Robert Burck, as he is known away from his work, rises early, exercises, quotes motivational authors ... More >>

Letters

Blago on the Stand: Not Guilty, Wants to Stay Gov and Help People

"I think about my parents a lot. I think about a lot of people I've met along the way." Governor Rod Blagojevich is doing his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington routine in Springfield on what is expected to be the last day of his impeachment trial. "I met a woman who told me the story of her day-to-day li ... More >>

Lawyers Who Sought Sex with 13-Year-Old Suspended

What gets a lawyer disbarred in New York? Apparently not trying to "engage in an oral sexual act" with a 13-year-old. In 2004 barrister Steven J. Lever chatted online and had several phone calls with a cop pretending to be a severely underage girl. He was arrested when he tried to meet the fictional ... More >>

The Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008

Excited (not to say deranged) by the long Presidential campaign, conservative bloggers -- rightbloggers, in our affectionate parlance -- were in top form this year, and outstripped the sleepy Main Stream Media in every way. If mainstream Republicans were content to call Obama a socialist, rightblogg ... More >>

Frost/Nixon's Secret Weapon: Kevin Bacon

Daily Flog: America's King Henry; money bailout for Wall Street but no bailout from Mets' bullpen

Free Will Astrology: March 12 through 18

Delegating Authority

As McCain and Romney fight for the nomination, New York’s G.O.P. has a lot to lose

Letters

Remembering Roger Stone Fondly

Rove's 'Generation of Peace' to Finally End

A Secret History of Gerald Ford

If Libby's Indicted, Cheney Will Feel the Heat

Once Scooter sings, it's a whole new Plame Affair

The Broken Constitution

More eyewitnesses to U.S. torture of detainees pierce the Bush administration's cover-up

Senator Goes Missing

Where are the soldiers? The issue the press never asks McCain about.

Speaking of Filibusters

There's a long, rich history of big-time talkers. You have a few hours?

Events for Dissent

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Kerry's Catholic Question

Cardinal Edward Egan faces a defining moment in the 2004 race for the White House

Lost in America

From Nicholas Berg to Abu Ghraib, the search for something to trust

The Puppet Chancellor

Joel Klein claimed that the axed 'social promotion' dissenters resigned. This was a lie.

Notes From Underground

Terrorists in Retirement

When Doves Cry

Oscar Declares War on the War

Labor's 'No' to War

A New Generation of Leaders Makes a Different Choice

The Carson Show

Pages From a Cold Island

The Untouchables

Blood Simple

Fight Songs

Love the Sun, Lasso the Moon

The Clinton Jones

Why We Can't Let the Big Creep Go

Yanks: Three-peat or De-feat?

Baseball in the Big Apple: Two Teams, One Ticket-Tape Parade

Error, Comptroller

Paranoia Runs Deep

Conspiracy theories have seeped into the heart of the American public

Bear Markets

Scenes from Russia's ruble crisis