Richard Nixon

Daughter of Republican Mayoral Hopeful John Catsimatidis is Sort of a Mini-Celebrity in China

It appears that Chinese media has taken a particular shine to Andrea Catsimatidis, daughter of Gristedes owner and Republican New York City mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis. She's on a trip with her husband, the grandson of Richard Nixon (yes), to recreate the former president's trip to the Great ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

Newt Gingrich is a Ridiculous Candidate for President -- Which Explains His Rise

Last week, when we told you Newt Gingrich was the GOP's flavor of the month, you could have been forgiven for being skeptical. That Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House who pissed off most of the country by shutting down the government? Who was fined by Congress for ethics violations? Who ... More >>

Gloria Steinem, A Roomful Of Other Women, And Me

​I felt very male at last night's HBO screening of Gloria: In Her Own Words, the documentary about famed women's rights leader Gloria Steinem. There were only about three men in the room--including me--so I had the joyful opportunity to soak in all that estrogen and bond with the sisterho ... More >>

Norman Mailer's 50th Birthday Party: "Maahhvelous!"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 6 Mailer's Birthday by Lucian K. Truscott IV Norman Mailer is probably the only man in America who could give himself a birthday party, charge $50 a couple admission to the posh inner sanctum of the Fo ... More >>

Just a Hard-On Away From the Presidency

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 44 Just a hard-on away from the Presidency by Bob Williams I was just a hard-on away from the Presidency, in a darkened room somewhere off the corridors of power. On a small screen a man and woman were ... More >>

Ti-Grace Atkinson and Nixon's Kiss-Off

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 26, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 43 Just another dirty demonstration? by Blair Sobol "Kiss off you Nixon Suckers, and watch it 'cause Ti-Grace Atkinson has returned." And a stunning return it was, complete with singing, shouting, shovi ... More >>

The Five Worst Politicians Of All Time

​Power corrupts, in some cases way more than others. Here, in ascending order of awfulness, are the politicians who've abused their privilege the most horribly, staining their records with terrible policies and crappy excuses.

Obama Hosts Chinese Leader (Or, Translated Into Rightblogger: Obama Sells Out America to Communists, Pianist)

"Red China" had been effectively closed to U.S. trade for years when President Nixon began softening things up in the 70s. Subsequent Presidents from both parties have followed Nixon's lead, and now, along with state visits like the one Chinese Leader Hu Jintao made last week to the White House, we ... More >>

Carl Paladino Can't Catch a Break, Even From GOP-Loving Murdoch

Nixon's Checkers speech: Paladino needs one​The Greater Murdoch Empire may be pumping millions into national Republican races, but it's working overtime to drive the GOP's Carl Paladino bananas. Today, the Post gives a rare tip of the Murdoch hat to Sir Rupert's much-loathed rival, the Times, ... More >>

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Nudity Seriously Freaking People Out

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 23, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 15 Scenes by Howard Smith VALERIE [SOLANAS] was back in court last Friday. This time to find out whether the court psychiatric clinic report agreed with Mattawan State Hospital's verdict when it release ... More >>

Alexander Haig Dead at 85

​Four-star general Alexander Haig, 85, the Reagan administration Secretary of State who claimed to be "in control" of the White House after Reagan was shot in 1981, died today in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. According to the AP, Haig succumbed to complications from an infection.

Life Lessons From Kissinger, George W., and Randy Jackson: Studies in Crap and Fox News are Going Places

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. Going Places: How America's Best and Brightest Got Started Down the Road of Life Author: E.D. Hill, former ho ... More >>

Letters: April 15 Edition

Robert Morgenthau's Last Hurrah

We get few lessons in grace these days, especially from locally elected officials. But Robert Morgenthau, who was first elected District Attorney of New York County a few months after Gerald Ford took office as president so long ago, gave us one late Friday afternoon. He sat at a bare wooden table ... More >>

Quick Hits

Bartender Leo Cook of Bloomington, Indiana has won T.G.I. Friday's Utimate Beverage competition with his "Vanilla Lemon Ice," which will be served at Friday's restaurants starting today. The drink comprises Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka, triple sec, lemonade and Sprite. Bring the kids! A young Harlem moth ... More >>

Vile Italians in Women Beware Women and Caligula

Some very nasty doings in Florence and ancient Rome

Musto's Year in Review

The year in pictures—pictures of me!

Camille Paglia Praises Sarah Palin, Maintains Valuable Right-Wing Cred

Why the Mormons Hate the Gays

Clip Job: Election Not Close, At Least in the Village

What We Learned about the Election in This Summer's Movies

From the multiplex to the stump: It's caped crusader versus community organizer, and the end is nigh

New York Senator Helps Party, Herself in Convention Address

Ben Stein, Propagandist, in Expelled

Spending that Ferris Bueller capital

Souvenirs and Slime: Inside the Greatest Collection of Presidential Campaign Memorabilia

Anne Boleyn Gives Good Head—and Nice Screening

Nixonian Tumult Remembered in Chicago 10

The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom

Waterboarding the White House

Echoes of Watergate in the twilight of the Bush presidency

Blast from Past: Rove and Rather in '72

Mixing and Mingling

Big Dance Theater combine cultures, and maybe sell an insurance policy

Woodward's Dis

Watergate-era hero reporter on Plamegate story? He can put it down.

Northern Exposures:

Clinton Does the Democratic Primaries

That Other Guy

Ed Cox could be the best bet to challenge Clinton, if only the GOP would let him

Felt's Goon-Squad Past

In his day job, Deep Throat specialized in smears and illegal break-ins

The End of Democracy

Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way

Acquiring Extreme Resonance

Chelsea theaters hold a plethora of dancing, dramatic images, and complex metaphors

Sports

Left Out in the Cold

Which Way the Wind Blows

An Enemy of Nixon and Baraka

'Parades of People Would Follow Behind'

The 2002 Wacko Awards

Nation

Nation

G.I. Jane

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

History Lesson

The Hammer Strikes

Tom DeLay’s Republican Congress Prepares to Smash the State

The Absent Alpha

In a Race Between Two Filial Men, Women Will Decide Who Is the Beloved Son

Sanctioned Sadism

Why the Right Needs the Homeless

World War II Chic

Saving Private Clinton

As the casualties mount, our Commander-in-Chief soldiers on

Gigglegate and Gomorrah