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 ...

WILKES-BARRE – Murder suspect Jessica Alinsky’s former neighbor testified during a deposition Wednesday that he awoke to the crack of a gunshot the night her boyfriend died but then went back to sleep ...

If Saul Alinsky weren’t already dead, he’d die to get a piece of Newt Gingrich. The one kind of man Alinsky had no use for was a bully. The Dough Boy of GOP reaction has apparently decided he can win ...

WILKES-BARRE – Jessica Alinsky’s defense got started Thursday morning with jurors hearing that her boyfriend Matthew Ryan Gailie was known to fire his pistol with his left hand and that she was so ...

WILKES-BARRE – She maintained her innocence. Her pastor likened her to Jesus. The judge cringed at the comparison to Pontius Pilate. But still Jessica Alinsky, 32, a Shenandoah native, was sentenced ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

One of the weirder things about having a Chicagoan as president—and a White House dense with fellow Chicago power brokers, from Rahm to Axelrod to Bill Daley—has been the ways in which Chicago history ...

WILKES-BARRE – She maintained her innocence. Her pastor likened her to Jesus. The judge cringed at the comparison to Pontius Pilate. But stillm Jessica Alinsky, 32, was sentenced during a bizarre ...

In his speech at the Republican convention Tuesday, Ben Carson claimed Hillary Clinton "greatly admired" a man named Saul Alinsky, whom, he said was "one of her heroes, her mentors." From the context ...

In an Ideas piece, Ben Joravsky says Saul Alinsky lives in the hearts and souls of young right-wing activists like James O'Keefe. | AP photo composite by POLITICO When I came to Chicago in 1981, Saul ...

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 ...