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Andrew Breitbart dies at 43; conservative Internet entrepreneur who took on the left

2012-03-02 00:00:00

Andrew Breitbart, the pugnacious, conservative Internet entrepreneur who took on the left and what he called the "media bully cabal" with a series of exposes that were explosive and sometimes flawed, died early Thursday after collapsing near his home in...

'Super PACs' largely funded by a wealthy few

2012-02-01 22:02:00

When it comes to big money in politics, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons' influence has long been apparent in Texas, where he has plowed more than $1 million into Rick Perry's gubernatorial campaigns. Now Simmons has found a new outlet for his outsize...

Meghan Daum: The State of Student Activism

2006-10-14 00:00:00

THE EVENTS at Columbia University on Oct. 4, in which about a dozen students stormed a stage where the founder of an anti-illegal immigration group was speaking, didn't exactly resemble those of April 1968. There were no arrests, no soundtrack by the...

Alcatraz: Getting rattled on 'the Rock'

2007-04-07 00:00:00

Alcatraz Island, Calif. — EACH day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He's the night watchman of Alcatraz. Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches...

The Obama-McCain age gap that matters

2008-06-01 00:00:00

Call me squeamish, but I really wish I didn't know that John McCain recently suffered from an enlarged prostate. That, however, was merely one of the many bits of health trivia that emerged after the McCain campaign opened hundreds of pages of the...

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...

Is McCain 'race-baiting'?

2008-10-19 00:00:00

The McCain campaign, according to a recent New York Times editorial, is "race-baiting." In the current New York Review of Books, author Andrew Delbanco agrees, saying that the campaign is using "whispers and winks" to fight a subtle racial campaign....

'Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist,' by Bill Ayers

2008-12-14 00:00:00

Fugitive Days Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist Bill Ayers With a New Afterword by the Author Beacon Press: 316 pp., $15 paper With time running out on his bid for the White House, John McCain used the final presidential debate to play his Bill Ayers...

McCain's debatable strategy

2008-10-16 00:00:00

John McCain faced a hard choice Wednesday evening: He could conduct his final debate with Barack Obama on the high plane of principle and risk losing the election, or he could engage in personal acrimony and risk destroying his argument that, for him,...

Negative campaigning -- what's new?

2008-11-04 00:00:00

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson endured a presidential campaign in which supporters of his opponent, President John Adams, labored mightily to convince the public that the then-vice president was an atheistic coward hell-bent on ripping Bibles from the homes of...

Is McCain too old? Is Obama too young?

2008-06-12 00:00:00

Today's question: Is Barack Obama too young? Is John McCain too old? What major shortcomings must each candidate address? Click here to read previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. "John McCain (R)" � that's his problem Point: Megan McArdle We'...

Obama's Ayers connection

2008-10-07 00:00:00

Even by the shabby standards of this presidential campaign, it's outrageous for Sarah Palin to assert that Barack Obama is so deficient in patriotism that he would "pal around with terrorists who bomb their own country." Obama was wrong to associate...

Sean Hannity The outspoken Fox News co-host of Hannity & Colmes can even cause controversy even when he s not on television. A recent ABC Democratic debate co-hosted by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson drew criticism for straying from political issues.

2008-05-01 16:03:32

William Ayers The co-founder of the Weather Underground , the radical antiwar movement that bombed a series of public buildings in the 1960s and '70s, had been living a relatively low-profile life as a university professor in Chicago when his name was put back in the spotlight through his

1980-12-03 00:00:00