Bill Thompson has a natural base and surprising allies beyond it. Now he has to make peace with the sound bite.

With Weiner in, Quinn drifting, Liu seething, and Thompson and De Blasio dueling, the campaign is about to get warm.

Don’t laugh—it’s not impossible.

Christine Quinn’s shifting term-limits position may cost her—but not in the way everyone thinks.

With unmatched political virtuosity, Andrew Cuomo has so far bent the state capital to his will. But things are about to get a lot tougher.

In Albany’s long-running sitcom, a new episode.

Bill Thompson and the strange place of race in this year’s mayor’s race.

Ed Koch’s towering self-regard made him the perfect person to lead New York to sanity.

“I am not a tool of Rudy Giuliani,” says mayoral candidate Joe Lhota. But escaping the shadow of America’s mayor may be tougher than he thinks.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has taken on the role of liberal gatekeeper—trying to goad Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo away from the Democratic center.