Charles Rangel
At a 'Five Little Monkeys' reading, Charlie Rangel discusses Bloomberg, Soros and the sad fate of dropouts
"When kids have nothing to dream about and they drop out of school, the easiest thing for them to do is to get into trouble with policemen who are not social workers and once you get into that system, the record is also clear that three out of four go back to the system," Rangel said. "The system’s not fair but that doesn’t help us, what’s fair and what isn’t fair."
Addressing himself to the staff, he cautiously expressed support for new plans for Michael Bloomberg and George Soros to fund half of a recently created program for minority youth. More
The fall of the Nassau Republican machine and the rise of Homeland Security chair Peter King
To the casual observer of national politics, Peter King, whose Homeland Security committee will soon launch what amounts to a Congressional inquest into the loyalty of Muslim-Americans, probably seems like a perfect caricature of a Tea Party-era Republican. More
(5)'Pretty boys' vs. Darryl and Derek; Rangel vs. Zadroga
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
Maybe Andrew Sullivan was just in a hurry
Andrew Sullivan was probably just distracted today when he did a post on Steve Kornacki's analysis of Representative Jo Bonner's chastisement of an already-humiliated Charles Rangel during the House ethics trial on Thursday. More
The Rangel chroniclers: Schoolyard bully vs. tourist
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
F.A.Q.: What just happened to Charlie Rangel, actually?
Azi: Ed Koch told me he should retire, not because of shame or dishonor but from the point of view of dude, you're old, the job sucks now, go have fun and get rid of this headache. And he knows something about the misery of overstaying a public welcome. Of course there may be some (old!) grudges there.
Azi: On the other hand local officials who are still in office, by and large, supported him. Keith Wright actually laughed at me when I asked whether there was anything Congress could really do to Rangel. More
Blue York: Paladino saves the day, Schumer wins and loses
Carl Paladino killed the revolution, as it turns out. Republicans had their share of successes across the state on Election Day, picking up at least five House seats and possibly control of the State Senate. But they also failed to win two very winnable contests for statewide office. The day before voters headed to the polls, a Siena poll found the contests for attorney general and comptroller all knotted up. More
Primary color: Rangel unscathed, Paladino unleashed, Gillibrand untested
The outcome of Tuesday night’s primary, the twenty-first time Charlie Rangel has been judged by his Harlem-based House district’s Democratic voters, wasn’t a surprise: For the twenty-first time, Rangel won his party’s nomination. The margin was wide—he more than doubled his nearest challenger’s tally—and he is now a shoo-in for the general election. More
(1)A voters' guide to today's tabloids
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
The Tabloid Ballad of Steven Slater, a sequel
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
(2)At a fund-raiser, Rangel and friends create their own narrative
The crowd was milling around Chocolat, the new Leon Ellis restaurant on Frederick Douglass Boulevard at the corner of 120th Street, when Charlie Rangel walked through the door. He shook a few hands, grinning from ear to ear, and then went straight for the microphone. “I don’t normally just come in and take the mic,” he told the crowd. One of the evening’s hosts, Reverend Reginald Williams, shouted back, “You at home!” More
'Visible Storage,' Chelsea, and the strange candidacy of Carl Paladino: a Capital week in review
The creation, the donation, the acquisition of the Henry Luce Center for American Culture items seem much more worthwhile when it doesn't look like "large portions of a museum's holdings—in some cases, the substantial majority—languish in storage, and are rarely if ever seen by the public." More
Most of New York's Congress members try to wait out the whole mosque thing, still
Breaking an awkward silence on the matter of the “Ground Zero Mosque” over the past weeks, at least a small number of New York's House and Senate delegation have pivoted off Michael Bloomberg’s instantly historic pro-mosque speech on Aug. 3 to voice their own support of for project.
Of 12 House members whose districts are mostly or entirely in New York City, and the state's two Senators, three have praised Bloomberg's speech and another has issued a statement supporting a Landmarks Preservation Commission decision to deny landmark status to a building the mosque is supposed to replace without mentioning the mayor's speech. One has issued a noncommittal statement. And nine have balked, entirely: one no-comment and eight non-responses to requests for comment. More
(1)Rangel, among friends, discusses war, suicide and plea bargains
Before embattled 15th District Congressman Charles Rangel took the stage at the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce's economic development awards luncheon at Columbia University this afternoon, he drank a few glasses of lemonade, joked with former Comptroller H. Carl McCall, whom he sat next to at the dais, and gave current Comptroller John Liu, another keynote speaker, a thumbs-up. More
Charlie Rangel, inviolate
He’s been charged with 13 serious ethical violations, with a formal reprimand (or worse) on the way. He’s facing explicit calls for his resignation from his fellow House Democrats, and the world's most unsubtle hint from the president of the United States. But there's still reason to believe that all choices having to do with how and when Charlie Rangel ends his career wil be made by Charlie Rangel. More
