Ben Carson’s RNC speech was mostly uneventful: It was, for someone who is not exactly the most disciplined speaker, blissfully short, though it was also very Ben Carson-y, which is to say that it was ...

When Ben Carson, in his speech at the Republican National Convention, drew attention to Hillary Clinton’s tribute to the radical community organizer Saul Alinsky (1909-72), no eyebrows ascended. But ...

One of Newt Gingrich‘s most bizarre lines of attack against liberals and President Obama is that they’re basically working from the playbook of Saul Alinsky. This has been a rally cry of his for ...

On the night of his triumph in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich boldly announced: “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” Barack ...

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 ...

Shortly after the health care debates began erupting into shouting matches where citizens hectored elected officials at town hall meetings, articles about Saul Alinsky began appearing. The mobilizing ...

At a campaign event in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday morning, Newt Gingrich dropped a name that he has been using a lot lately. "I believe in the Constitution; I believe in the Federalist Papers. Obama ...

Kai Ryssdal: If you’ve been paying attention to the Republican nomination race, you might have been hearing the name Saul Alinsky a lot lately. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani used it to describe ...

He died in 1972, at the age of sixty-three, a marginalized figure in his own obscure field and seldom mentioned outside of it. But to close followers of the topsy-turvy GOP presidential primary, the ...

Communist-minded community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his prologue to “Rules for Radicals,” explained that the most effective activists were those who worked within the established “system,” not ...

Ben Carson delivered animated remarks about Hillary Clinton at the GOP Convention on Tuesday night, dropping a name that has become a lightning rod for Republicans: Saul Alinsky. Carson has repeatedly ...

Newt Gingrich has adopted the late organizer as a punching bag, but he and Alinsky share a view of America and reverence for the Founding Fathers. In his victory speech the night of the South Carolina ...