Jesse Helms

Scott Walker to pen book with 'torture apologist'

2013-03-26 11:00:00

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is drawing heat over his choice of ghostwriter for a forthcoming book. As the National Review online reported, Walker will team up with former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen on the book, which according to a source...

'Game Change' is an old Hollywood story, a la 'A Star Is Born'

2012-03-11 16:38:00

Critic's Notebook: Karen Finley slips into the skin of other women

2011-05-29 00:00:00

In "The Jackie Look," the last of eight monologues that make up her new book "The Reality Shows" (Feminist Press: 256 pp., $17.95 paper), Karen Finley offers a statement that suggests her point of view. "Life," she writes, "is more important than art /...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich: 'We will not be raising taxes in this state'

2011-03-09 16:35:32

A survey of heated rhetoric on Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ'

2011-04-19 16:33:25

Shepard Fairey says honesty is essential to his art despite his 'slip' over a disputed Obama poster [updated]

2010-01-21 16:32:43

A century of Times editorials on the filibuster

2010-03-05 16:34:19

Senators take their concerns to the border

2009-03-31 00:00:00

The United States does not need to send troops to the border in response to Mexico's drug war, nor is Mexico in danger of becoming a failed state, law enforcement officials told a congressional panel Monday. Witnesses testifying before members of the...

The U.S. must reengage with the International Criminal Court

2009-03-11 00:00:00

The arrest warrant issued last week for Sudan President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir has thrown into stark relief a question the Obama administration and Congress need to address: What are we going to do about the International Criminal Court? The desire...

Game on: Pros and big-league politics

2008-11-19 00:00:00

Howard Cosell called it "rule No. 1 of the Jockocracy": the idea that sports and politics must never mix. This last election season though, that iron wall separating the two worlds wasn't merely breached, it was flattened. It has been little reported...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

2008-07-05 00:00:00

Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial privilege, died Friday. He was 86. Helms, who won...

Government officials and politicians

2008-12-28 00:00:00

Government officials and politicians Spencer M. Williams, 85; federal judge in San Francisco, appointed by President Nixon, who advocated for judges' interests (Jan. 3) Houston I. Flournoy, 78; GOP assemblyman and controller in California who lost the...

At the height of the so-called culture wars of 20 years past -- when the late Senator Jesse Helms was raging against "obscene" artists funded by the NEA - you could look from the sidelines and marvel at the distance between these two passionate American constituencies.

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Former Sen. Jesse Helms ' casket is carried from Hayes-Barton Baptist Church following funeral services in Raleigh, N.C. Helms, who represented North Carolina in the Senate from 1973 to 2003, died Friday.

2008-07-08 00:00:00

Jesse Helms , former U.S. senator, July 4 Former N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on

2008-07-07 04:52:36