History Bites

Three years after Richard M. Nixon resigned, the Voice ran a contest to determine an appropriate memorial for the disgraced Commander in Chief.

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The Black Panthers were accused of planning heinous crimes, but the prosecution’s case was way too imaginative for a jury of street-level New Yorkers.

Drugs and politics have long been odd bedfellows, none more than teetotaler Donald Trump unleashing ibogaine to help vets suffering from PTSD.

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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Autocrats crave massive ceremonial structures to cement their legacies.

Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s life's work is calling out fascists, past and present.

Fifty years ago this week, the Voice reviewed the “White Album” and “Beggars Banquet,” two records that caused a raft of trouble.

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“Orwell and Truth,” at NYU’s Kimmel Windows Gallery, explores the history of the writer and journalist who gave us the term “Orwellian.” 

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.

This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.