POLITICS ARCHIVE

In 1982, Brooklyn congressman Fred Richmond attempted to use money and powerful connections to maneuver his way out of a sex scandal.

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In 1966 the civil rights leader faced down those who wanted to kill him.

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Robert Massa covered the AIDS crisis from a personal perspective.

The Voice's Albany reporter — who, according to at least one reader, should have been beatified — weighed in on the shame of not having pissed off a thin-skinned and vindictive president enough to be officially targeted for revenge.

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With “No Kings” marches blooming across the country tomorrow, we look back to 1970 and another POTUS who wished to be a monarch.

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Reporting on the 1992 Presidential Sweepstakes: Admit Nothing, Blame Everybody, Be Bitter

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Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, however: In 1943, U.S. psychiatrists felt it was their duty to probe the mind of the madman across the water.

Long before he was Donald Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr was already mired in corruption.

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“Every AIDS activist feels a calling when a new bug hits. We are uniquely positioned to make a difference, having become essential workhorses within the public health establishment. We provide muscle for making sure the politicians listen to the science.”

“The same policy that led us, in countries like Poland, to champion the rights of the ordinary Poles, led us, in countries like Vietnam, to outdo the communists themselves at exterminating the peasantry. It became a monstrosity, that policy.”

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