Fifty years ago today (June 15) then-President Richard Nixon declared the “war on drugs." Today, Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Cori Bush (D-MO) filed a bill in Congress to finally end it. ...
Donald Trump's presidency effectively ended with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the biggest assault on the nation's democracy since the Civil War. ...
New York City has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, but 50 shootings over the most recent weekend will pale in comparison, if the Supreme Court overturns a key law. ...
Prostitutes and "happy-ending" massage workers will no longer face criminal prosecution in New York City, but the men who solicit them and sex traffickers could still face arrest and jail if convicted. ...
Gun advocates claim the Second Amendment provides an absolute right to own and carry any kind of gun, but a far greater right should take precedent--the right to public safety. ...
Mick Jagger is throwing stones at anti-vaxxers who won't take coronavirus vaccines in a new song that features Nirvana and Foo Fighters member Dave Grohl. ...
Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican Congressman who is being investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage teen, saw the case take a bizarre turn....
Restricting the right to carry guns in public has a long history in the United States and does not run afoul of the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled. ...
Fox News Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity have been the biggest purveyors of Russian propaganda (Photos: Gage Skidmore)
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President Biden at his swearing in Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo: Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies)
With President Joe Biden in the White House...
Donald Trump will seem archaic by the 2024 election. (Photo: Getty)
Donald Trump says he plans to run for president in 2024, but by then he and his brand o...
When Tina Fey and Amy Poehler trashed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) at this year's Golden Globes, they were only pointing out the obvious. ...
Andrew Cuomo is facing the creepiest sexual allegations yet after a second woman 37 years his junior complained that the New York governor sexually harassed her....
The Trump administration was criminally negligent for coronavirus mismanagement. (Photo: Getty)
Donald Trump's mismanagement and dissembling over the COVID-...
Rush Limbaugh portrayed himself as a man of the people on his bombastic, right-wing radio and TV show, but in real life he lived the indulgent life of a pasha....
Keith Girard is Editor and Publisher of The New York Independent, the progressive New York web magazine. Read the latest on Celebrities, Politics, Fashion, Music, Arts, Film, TV, Theater & Pop Culture. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of Billboard magazine and a reporter for the Washington Post among other media positions.
