Bernardine Dohrn

McCain, Palin demand L.A. Times release Obama video

2008-10-30 00:00:00

John McCain and Sarah Palin sharply criticized the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday for refusing to make public a video of a 2003 event at which Barack Obama paid tribute to a Palestinian scholar. The Republican presidential and vice presidential...

May Day marches, rallies do little to disrupt work day in Loop

2012-05-01 16:30:00

Occupy protesters, anti-war demonstrators and union supporters staged a series of May Day rallies and marches today with little disruption to the work day in Chicago's business district. Protest groups and authorities alike saw the events as a tune-up...

Obama's doctrine: Lead from behind

2011-05-02 00:00:00

"Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president's actions in Libya as "leading from behind." — Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2. To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a...

Spying may have started earlier than police said

2008-10-01 00:00:00

A Maryland State Police agent may have used an undercover alias to infiltrate a leftist Mount Vernon cooperative in January 2005 - two months before police say their secret monitoring of death-penalty activists began - according to documents released...

Video: Obama didn't know about Ayers?

2008-10-06 16:30:15

One of only a few documented encounters Obama had with ex-radical Bill Ayers was in 1995, when he hosted a dinner at which Hyde Park's outgoing state senator introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Today, on CNN, Obama's chief strategist......

Bill Ayers talks: No 'cartoon character'

2008-11-05 04:24:17

by Mark Silva After months of self-imposed silence, the "washed up terrorist'' of the 2008 presidential campaign - John McCain's name for Chicago's Bill Ayers - has spoken out. He did so with our friend, Peter Slevin, Chicago-based correspondent for......

Bill Ayers unrepentant in DC

2008-11-18 16:24:13

by Clarence Page Yes, that's Barack Obama's neighbor, the former Weather Underground bomb thrower Bill Ayers, captured above by my cell phone camera as he spoke to an almost- full sanctuary in a Washington DC church - with very......

Bill Ayers: Obama's Arne Duncan wrong

2009-01-10 04:24:11

by Mark Silva Bill Ayers, that "washed up terrorist,'' the way the McCain-Palin campaign wanted to portray an early supporter of Barack Obama in Chicago, or distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the way academics.....

More interest, entries than ever

2003-01-15 00:00:00

Here's a question: What film festival, set in a small but prosperous ski town, is about to screen more than 100 feature films and play host to two members of the Weather Underground, a Thai prince, Francis Ford Coppola and cult hero/cartoonist Harvey...

'The Weather Underground'

2003-08-29 00:00:00

Was ever a political group so woefully mislabeled as the Weather Underground? Named after the Bob Dylan lyric that posited that "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," these 1960s and '70s radicals believed that this country was...

Bill Ayers , right, and Bernardine Dohrn , join May Day protesters at Union Park at 1501 W. Randolph St. in Chicago.

2012-05-01 00:00:00

Northwestern University law professor Bernardine Dohrn hugs torture victim Ronald Kitchen outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge was found guilty of perjury.

2010-06-28 00:00:00