NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to testify Monday against a campaign consultant charged with scamming him out of more than $1 mil...

NEW YORK — There is "overwhelming" evidence against a political operative charged with bilking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of more than...

NEW YORK — New York state's Independence Party bills itself as blasting a straightforward new path through two-party politics, a route for free ...

Mike Bloomberg is smart, focused, popular -- and a largely successful mayor. But he's also the avatar of a new age of politics dominated not by the checks-and-balances we learned about in high school but too often simply checks.

These parties tend to devolve into a legal extortion system -- demanding patronage or financial support from the Democratic and GOP nominees in return for giving them a second, or third, or fourth line on the ballot.