One wrote a manifesto called Rules for Radicals. The other wrote titles such as Seven Pillars of Peace, The Divine Romance and Freedom Under God. Both were natives of Illinois. Both shaped generations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago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

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 ...

Saul Alinsky is a name most people don't know, so why does Newt Gingrich drop Alinsky's name at every opportunity without explaining who he is? Because it is not what the Republican presidential ...

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 ...