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The former mayor is leading an insider’s insurrection against Albany’s corruption. But no throwing the bums out.

The long-serving NYPD commissioner is autocratic, dismissive of civil-liberties concerns—and effective. Is that a reasonable trade-off to keep the city safe?

Ronald Tackmann’s ingenious prison breakouts— and his jailhouse sculptures of soap and toilet paper—have made him a legend of the penal system. It’s freedom he can’t handle.

A timeline of the Cipriani family's troubles.

A disappointing primary night for the never-say-die former—and still just possibly future—public advocate.

89-year-old Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau has set himself one last duty before stepping away: to prevent the brassy Leslie Crocker Snyder from getting his job. So far, he’s botching it.

The Bloomberg L.P. discrimination suit returns to bedevil the mayor. Will it affect his reelection?

An Asian-American politician arrives.

A requiem.

Everybody likes David Paterson—maybe because he never asked them to take him too seriously. But can New York’s decidedly unusual governor keep the state from becoming a wreck?