Election day is finally here! To find your polling site, you can use the city's handy Poll Site Locator. You can also call 866-VOTE-NYC or 311. For...
gothamgazette.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York
Turnout is likely to be anemic, experts say. But that is no reason to head to the polls uninformed. In our latest Guide for the Last Minute Voter, we...
Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
It's the immigrants who really know the fragility of liberty; how it can be won and lost, and won and lost again. For them freedom is not a parade. It's a flower in a storm.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living
Instead of long lines and/or a "dark side," I met a handful of people who were excited and hopeful about a change in administration and international perception of the United States.
Beth Arnold | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The truth is -- and some Americans don't understand this -- the French also wanted the best for us.
Jeff Chang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Throughout the north side of Pittsburgh, one of the city's three major Black districts, they lined up before dawn, hundreds deep in the 47-degree weather as if they were waiting for history to be made.
Steven Weber | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
As Obama has campaigned, so shall he govern. And as he won, so have we won. We must preserve, protect and defend the nation we have won back.
Paul Finkelman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the end Obama is not America`s first black president -- he is America`s first president who happens to be black. The difference is huge.
Sheryl Crow | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment
We are now finally waking up and realizing the damage that was done while we were in a asleep at the wheel. As evident in this election time, we are now a nation impassioned with possibility.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow.
Chris Durang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
You know what, I'm shell shocked. I can't feel glad yet, that's a quirk of mine, it's hard for me to celebrate.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Obama ran a campaign that began with a speech that proclaimed, "We aren't Red States. We aren't Blue States. We are the United States." And that is how he won. That is the politics of change.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
When my mother got married, my grandfather said he'd shoot my dad with a shotgun (an inauspicious but common beginning for an interracial marriage).
Hooman Majd | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Tonight, as Americans have decided they would prefer Obama to McCain as their next president there is a sigh of relief, and disbelief, in many quarters in the Middle East, including in Iran.
Gary Hart | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The president-elect represents a new, post-Clinton, beyond centrism, post-racial, new politics, internet-driven phenomenon. The nation is fed up with neoconservative imperialists, radical fundamentalists, and failed supply-siders.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Here is a collection of my posts and videos from this historic week: Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate Watch: Election Night Reactions: Arianna Talks With Norman Lear, Laurie David, Marty Kaplan And Madelaine Lear Tuesday's Second Biggest Winner: Democracy The Winners and Losers of Campaign '08 Watch: Arianna on BBC Newsnight Discussing Obama's Win I'm Ready to Declare a Winner in the 2008 Race: the Internet
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
To be sure, the failing economy provided Democrats the context they needed. But a candidate with a little backbone gave them the ability to convince voters to take a chance on change.
George Stevens, Jr. | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
I wrote to Barack several days later. Here's the letter. Looking back, it seems as if today was somehow written in America's destiny.
Bruce Springsteen | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Now is the time to stand together with Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the millions of Americans that are hungry for a new day, roll up our sleeves and come on up for the rising.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
I kept thinking, "I wish my Mother could be here." I thought about Barack Obama's grandmother... and Paul Newman, too.
Philip G. Baker | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Our neighborhood has had many more Obama lawn signs than McCain, by a a ratio of almost 10:1. Today someone drove through this part of the town and stole all of the Obama signs.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
McCain didn't even write his memoir. And the book reads like it was written by the captain of the football team who had the smart kid do it for him.
Lea Lane | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
This is a moment to remember, and to share. May we all have a wonderful evening!
Phillip Martin | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the U.S., the possibility of an African American president does not presuppose the end to color prejudice any more than the election of Mandela meant an end to inequalities in South Africa.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
Tonight's election results it also offers proof or disproof of a long-held concept -- that people tend to watch news that comforts them and confirms their attitudes and biases.
Posted 11.03.2009 | New York