Two months later, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was killed. By late August, emotions boiled over on the streets of Chicago, where thousands protested what was unfolding at the Democratic National Convention. Through it all, the presidential candidates...

The foam-at-the-mouth crowd was ready and waiting in the spring of 1964 in the lime-stone armory in Cambridge, on that primeval bog known as the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace (D) did not disappoint the demonstration-weary...

Foe of Big Government though he be, he could not help but remind Ron Paul in a recent debate of the wonderful role played by the GI Bill following World War II -- a stellar example of what the old liberalism could accomplish. Gingrich channels George...

Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson (Jan. 8), was a revealing discussion of the rise of the right and the diminishing power of the moderate wing of the Republican Party. But allow me to add one more perspective on the rise of the Republican right: the...

Foe of Big Government though he be, he could not help but remind Ron Paul in a recent debate of the wonderful role played by the GI Bill following World War II - a stellar example of what the old liberalism could accomplish. Gingrich channels George C....

Who dat, Newt? The reference, although a tad obscure, is nevertheless intriguing. It shows that Gingrich is familiar with the late father of community organizing who died in 1972, and who by occupation and residence (Chicago) is suggestive of Gingrich...