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.

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

“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.

To become mayor, Bill de Blasio has to harness the energies of the outer-boroughs—and paint Christine Quinn as a Bloomberg clone.

Sheldon Silver, the most gifted Albany player of his generation, kept a payoff quiet. Will Andrew Cuomo win?

For the mayor, grappling with Occupy Wall Street is confoundingly personal.

Ray Kelly has had a remarkable run as NYPD commissioner—but now the problems are piling up.