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POLITICS

African Gay Rights Continue to Go Down

While Marriage Equality continues to spread over the United States of America and Europe like an unstoppable tidal wave, our…

Brian ConnollyApril 3, 2014

There are over twenty programs specifically dedicated to providing services for survivors of sexual assault in the five boroughs. Such…

Jessica KleinFebruary 14, 2014

Civil libertarians on the right and the left have latched onto the report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight…

Jeff MyhreFebruary 13, 2014

Chirlane McCray, the wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio , is going to have a major…

Jeff MyhreJanuary 21, 2014

When FDR became president in 1933, the country was suffering in the Great Depression. The Hoover administration either…

Jeff MyhreJanuary 16, 2014

Wednesday afternoon, the New York City Council unanimously elected Melissa Mark-Viverito as its new Speaker. She is the…

Jeff MyhreJanuary 9, 2014

When the new year comes in, optimism is the order of the day – hope that the next…

Jeff MyhreJanuary 6, 2014

I’ll be honest; I have never been a proponent of guns. I have never owned, one, never held…

Blair KaplanDecember 12, 2013

Days before nearly two million New Yorkers will see their food stamp benefits slashed under a $5 billion…

Beau G. HeyenOctober 31, 2013

"Keep your hands to yourself!" We are taught from a young age that we shall abide by this…

Blair KaplanOctober 27, 2013