Blogger Frank Parlato Brought Down Svengali-like Sex Cult Leader Keith Raniere, Freeing NXIVM Slaves

Attorney General Letitia James has a solid-gold Liberal reputation but her defense of New York City's right to dump its trash on a tiny upstate town raises questions about her commitment to protecting the environment, a State Supreme Court judge and environmental advocates say.

EDITORIAL

“These Digital Age Puritans speak a new language but operate in an old mold. The liturgy is different but the preaching is the same.”

Two train derailments in Ohio in a month have focused public attention on rail safety. CSX runs dozens of so-called "bomb" trains loaded with explosive Bakken crude oil and other toxic chemicals literally beneath the American Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River every week.

As the New York City Council weighs whether to order the NYPD to disband its special purpose Strategic Response Group, here’s a history in photographs of past special purpose NYPD units, including those charged with policing protests.

Female prisoner’s lawsuit for rape by guards on Rikers Island provides window into daily life for women there, circa 2018.

Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.

Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.

JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is a report I published in the Village Voice in 2016.

Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.

“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”

City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.

FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT

ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Throwback Thursday with this banger from 2019.

NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2