Alter was a senior editor, media critic and columnist for Newsweek, where he worked for 28 years and covered five administrations and seven presidential campaigns. During the 1928 presidential campaign, nutty right-wing Protestants claimed that Al...

The academics it talks to may wind up being drawn more from local universities than elsewhere, but pulling from Evanston, Chicago, Indiana and Illinois could hardly be called jingoism. And there's been a healthy balance between WBEZ bloggers and...

Schultz spoke to Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Jonathan Alter about the tentative deal to extend the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance. When asked why it appears Republicans are finally giving in and willing to pass the measures without demanding...

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Walter Jones. Their amendment, comparable to one sponsored by Tom Udall in the Senate, counters the Citizens United ruling and says money is not speech, and it authorizes Congress to enact public financing. The specifics of how best to clean up the...

Alter in Bloomberg View on campaign finance reform The 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision by the Supreme Court, which declared money a form of speech in elections, has quickly become "explosive." "Instead of sitting around...