Honest graft” is thriving in Washington as politicians continue exploiting privileged insider information to trade stocks, ...

He tackled issues like the Civil War, Reconstruction, immigration, and Tammany Hall, drawing on his experiences of childhood ...

Comparing Donald Trump's closing arguments in 2016 and 2024 reveals the challenges of doing what only one other president has ...

If the Mayor is looking for literary inspiration, someone still legally allowed to make contact with him might slip him a copy of “Plunkitt of Tammany Hall”—a slim, curious book published in ...

Musk’s multimillion-dollar spree aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2024 election is largely an updated, more ...

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the ...

Heaving with brothels and bars, the Five Points was a place Irish immigrants were keen to leave behind, and they often relied on the support of Tammany Hall, the local political machine ...

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If you think his name is Donald Trump, think again. He was Grover Cleveland, the one-time Democratic governor of New York and ...

The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day took place in October 1792 by the Columbian Order of New York, also known as Tammany Hall, to commemorate the 300 th anniversary of the Admiral’s ...

The state’s political culture is—especially as evinced by its campaign finance laws—practically designed to encourage ...

Known for his uncompromising satire, Nast was a fearless critic, using his art to expose corruption in figures like William ...