WASHINGTON, D.C. - Strangely enough, there has emerged in the background of the two major Democratic candidates for the presidency the shadow of a still- mysterious American, a Machiavelli of Main ...

Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with the long-dead community organizer has gone ...

Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed ...

Violence has been a political tool of the Left at least since revolutionaries introduced the guillotine in late 18th-century France. The United States didn’t experience this kind of destructive, ...

Saul Alinsky was a left-wing community organizer whose seminal 1971 book Rules for Radicals influenced the thinking of both Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Tea Party strategists. In a ...

When he claimed victory in South Carolina on Saturday, Newt Gingrich declared that, “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” But ...

In the Feb. 5 Appeal-Democrat, Anthony Matulich lamented that two few Americans know the background of President Barack Obama's mentor, Saul Alinsky. I am quite aware of who Mr. Alinsky was — he was a ...

Newt Gingrich frequently mentions another man's name in the same breath with President Barack Obama: Saul Alinsky. In his South Carolina primary victory speech last month, for example, the former ...

Robert Siegel talks to author Sanford Horwitt, who wrote a biography of Saul Alinsky called Let Them Call Me 'Rebel'. The book traces Alinsky's early activism in Chicago's meatpacking neighborhood.

I went to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's “town hall meeting” on health care Tuesday expecting to see rude behavior. But my “takeaway lesson” from the event was this: If you're an elected official who ...