History Bites

In 1975, the Voice delved into how Nixon sought to turn other Americans – not the Russians or even our battlefield foes in Vietnam – into the country's most hated enemies.

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Trump registered to vote in 1969, and by 1987 he'd had more than 40 separate opportunities to cast ballots. But when it came to actually stepping into a voting booth, the real-estate-empire scion, already a big talker back then, often fell silent.

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After the fall of the Twin Towers, the Voice sent reporters out across the city to document the stories about those who never came home.

A 1985 book covering the Reagan administration's global flailing presages Trump’s deadly bumbling of today.

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Reagan raised a storm of controversy when he agreed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of victory in World War II by honoring the worst of our former enemies.

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“Perhaps because he himself is so utterly a product of American mass culture, mass culture has proved unusually responsive to Ronald Reagan.”

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A tableau in today’s Penn Station harks back to the sci-fi classic “Neuromancer.”

The GOP has given us an unelected POTUS and then a convicted felon to oversee our biggest birthdays, so maybe this 4th of July, party with some local culture. 

The White House is using alien slop to distract from war, pedophilia, and inhuman policies.

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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