Surrounded by honking cars and chants of “ICE out of New York,” a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan to protest the detention of immigrants and a shifting ...

They said it couldn’t be done. And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than… ...

The Indypendent’s Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton has led our local political coverage since 2017 as the left has steadily ...

Long before he became the breakout star in this year’s NYC mayoral race, Mamdani appeared regularly in the pages of The Indy ...

What is known today as Atlanta used to be a thriving trade hub for Native Americans. In 1821, the federal government began to force the Muscogee tribe out of what Atlantans now call the South River ...

What does it mean to call Israel an apartheid state? The word, meaning literally “apartness,” originally referred to policies introduced in South Africa in 1948. Although presented as a path of equal ...

Read the thread for more. These descriptions of current conditions inside Rikers recall conditions from early in the pandemic, which recall conditions from 2019, when the negligence of jail staff ...

This year’s midterm elections saw the much-anticipated Republican “red wave” turn into a red trickle in most of the country with one glaring exception: bright blue New York. President Joe Biden won ...

AlleXion X Live music performer and original songwriter; subway busking since 2009 @axx.music on Instagram. In 2009, I had just come out of college. And even despite the financial crisis, those first ...