One of Nast’s favorite targets was William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, the leader of Tammany Hall, a corrupt political machine based in New York City. The cartoon at right was published on Oct. 21 ...

On September 25, the mayor of New York was indicted on criminal charges for the first time in the modern era. The charges marked the culmination of only one of four ongoing federal investigations into ...

Cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt was serving as Detroit ... Senator Roosevelt immediately began bucking Tammany Boss Charles Murphy’s machine on the election to the U. S. Senate of William ...

Americans are deeply divided along political lines. Everyone knows this, but I recently learned how intrinsic this division ...

Cleveland ran on his reformist principles, taking on the Tammany Hall political machine that controlled Democrat politics. This may be hard to believe today but back then the Democrats were ...

Cleveland ran on his reformist principles, taking on the Tammany Hall political machine that controlled Democrat politics. This may be hard to believe today but back then the Democrats were considered ...

has been much written about and frequently quoted. Perhaps the most notable political machine in American history is Tammany Hall, especially under the notorious Boss Tweed. There was also a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon ...

Wagner was also affiliated with a political machine. Wagner was a proud member of New York’s Tammany Hall. Bob Wagner enjoyed a long, eventful political career, first winning election to the New York ...

Last month, Tammany Hall, famed Manhattan political lair, was sold for $700,000. Last fortnight, the vigilant New York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried “Graft!” ...

A landlord in St. Tammany Parish who rented to registered sex offenders is now suing the parish over an ordinance regulating housing that is rented to sex offenders, arguing the regulations ...