State of the Union Address

NYAG Eric Schneiderman Plans To Sue BOA & Wells Fargo For Mortgage Fraud

In January of 2011, President Obama selected New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in his State of the Union address to lead a banking crime busters force. The creation of the team came on behalf of the Democrat's disenfranchised liberal base, a sect frustrated with the lack of criminal conseq ... More >>

Obama's SOTU Riles Rightbloggers Less Than Jokes About Thirsty Marco Rubio

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address, in which the President laid out a bunch of plans and Republicans denounced them. Rightbloggers got into this with the aplomb you'd expect. But when rising GOP star Marco Rubio had a comical moment in his official Republican response, and people had ... More >>

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Wants To Bring The $9 Minimum Wage To New York

Because, in 2013, $7.25 is seriously not cutting it. One of the most attentive features of President Obama's State of the Union address the other night was his proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $9. The move comes as a reaction to inflation, the higher costs of seemingly everything and t ... More >>

NYAG Eric Schniederman Announces First Fraud Task Force Target: J.P. Morgan Chase

Last January, President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that a joint effort between state and federal authorities would aim to bring Wall Street's ass to court for civil fraud violations. Although the frustrated liberal base wanted jail time for the 2008 financial crisis, this lega ... More >>

Bobby Jindal, Fizzled GOP Star, To Give Keynote At New York Republicans' Annual Dinner

​We know what you were probably thinking when you woke up this morning: "what ever happened to Bobby Jindal after that ghastly response he gave to President Barack Obama's 2009 State of the Union Address?"Well, maybe you weren't...but we've got an update anyway.Jindal, a former U.S. congressman/cu ... More >>

One Year Later, Miguel Padilla Sentenced for East Harlem Shooting of 13-Year-Old

On New Year's Day in 2011, Miguel Padilla shot a semiautomatic pistol several times at a Chevy Impala following a dispute over a parking space. The shots did not strike the victim, but instead hit a 13-year-old boy who was a passenger in a nearby minivan. The gunshots shattered the rear window of th ... More >>

Homeless Genius Teen Invited to State of the Union

Last week, Runnin' Scared brought you news of Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist from Long Island. Garvey gained nationwide attention when reports surfaced that she and her family were living in a homeless shelter -- and that she'd risen to become a semifinalist in Intel's s ... More >>

We Predict the Top 10 Stories of 2012

After compiling our list of the most-read Village Voice stories of 2011, we got to thinking about what the new year will bring. While it's impossible to accurately foresee the coming news cycle, we've used complex algorithms and web-based analytics to predict ten stories that will rock the world thi ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Eyed 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11 For Terrorist Attack

​A "rush examination" of the evidence gathered from Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan reveals that the Al Qaeda leader was still involved in thinking up future terrorist attacks, despite now-outdated guesses from analysts that he may have become more of a figurehead in recent years ... More >>

TV on the Radio Turn Their Gaze Inward

​ For a brief moment in late 2008, it felt like the clouds were parting after eight dark years, and TV on the Radio's supremely great "Golden Age" might just be heralding the start of something truly amazing. The band went all in, leaving any arty pretension to the music video and earnestly pr ... More >>

Obama Answers Your YouTube Questions, Even the Ones About Weed

Obama Girl Not Included​President Obama took to YouTube today and managed not even meet a single troll in the comments section. The interview was pretty dull and completely conflict free. It seemed like a normal speech for Obama, hyping up his Race To Start program and promising eventual aid f ... More >>

Skew Your Drinking Game to President Obama's State of the Union Word Cloud!

What will President Obama say tonight in his State of the Union Address? Well, we know what the White House has shared -- via Obama's prepared remarks, "people," "new," "job," "America(n)," "make," and "years" are your #SOTU drinking game buzzwords! If you're only drinking for "teachers," you'll be ... More >>

Congress and the Disappeared

Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

Mending the Levees

Terence Blanchard plots New Orleans' requiem and rebirth

Letters

Peace Mom's Easter Stand

Cindy Sheehan on the meaning of Easter in Crawford, and New York's lousy jails

'Don't Trip...He Ain't Through With Me Yet'

Letters

Bush's Speech on the Couch

Presidential analyst Justin A. Frank makes a housecall on SOTU

Bush All Mixed Up on Iran

President sort of pro-democracy, pro-nuclear--and sort of not, too.

State of the Union: Cindy Sheehan's Misdemeanor

Peace mom pledged a campaign of arrests--but for a T-shirt?

State of the Union: When Bush Talks Straight

First to Afghans, then Iraqis. Now the people of Iran?

State of the Union: Why Those Terrorists Got Away

Bush skips uncomfortable details on wiretap program

State of the Union Not Looking So Stately

Big Bush speech creates campaign atmosphere in D.C.

Verbatim: States of the Union, Revisited

Past annual addresses of a saber-rattling president

Patching Things Up

The press gets a second chance on the CIA leak case

The Iraq War Runs Through It

Beyond the Miller-Libby game: People died

The Real John Roberts

Justice O'Connor ruled Bush can't get 'a blank check' but her successor will give him one

Court to Gays: Don't Ask Us

Bench turns cold shoulder to sexual minorities

Zip It Up!

Assessing the new AIDS scare

Conversation Kills

Gray-haired pols keep yammering about Social Security, but it's young people who need to be heard

The Ghost Prisoners

Exposing our secret interrogation centers—around and outside our laws

Condi's Pre-Testimony Primer

Looking ahead to Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9-11 panel

The Failure of U.S. Intelligence

The question is not what went wrong, but what didn't.

NY Mirror

Tackle the NFL the American Way: Mutate their genes

MoveOn Ad Competition Ushers Bush Attacks Into the Mainstream

The Medium Is the Message

Party Politics

Hydrogen's Dirty Details

Cleaning Up: Bush's Pals, an Oligarch, and a Siberian Pollution Factory

Bush Still Playing With the Truth on Iraq

When Will The President Level With America?

Reason to Deceive

WMD Lies Could Be the New Watergate

Bush's Ever Shifting Absolutes

Let Us Count the Lies on the Road to War

Dying for War

The Bush warmongers miss the bloody truth

Forget Your Problems, We're Preparing for a War

Nation

View From the DMZ

The Human Cost of the U.S. Response to North Korea

Fit to Serve

High-Profile Athletes Toss Their Jocks, and Sports Bras, Into the Political Ring

Shrub's Supply-Side Dribble

For Most Americans, Tax Cuts Amount to Milk Money

Hillary on Elba

From the sublime to the ridiculous with HRC