• John McLaughlin, pioneer of raucous political punditry on TV, dies at 89

    John McLaughlin, pioneer of raucous political punditry on TV, dies at 89

    Aug 16, 2016 10:55 PM EDT

    ... boss to work for. A 1990 article in The Washington Post Magazine by Alterman quoted former McLaughlin staffers Anne Rumsey, Kara Swisher and Tom Miller recalling instances of petty tyranny and McLaughlin leering at female employees. His former office manager, Linda Dean, filed a $4 million lawsuit against McLaughlin in ...

  • Clinton’s ‘Moscow Spring’ ended as Putin returned to power

    Clinton’s ‘Moscow Spring’ ended as Putin returned to power

    Aug 07, 2016 01:20 PM EDT

    ... role of skeptic, refusing to jump aboard. When she finally did, it proved critical in persuading Russia to abstain. The rebels overthrew Gadhafi five months later. "It was the first time that Putin publicly criticized Medvedev," said Michael McFaul, Obama's main Russia adviser at the time and later U ...

  • Sanders predicts Democratic convention will be contested

    Sanders predicts Democratic convention will be contested

    Jun 05, 2016 05:08 PM EDT

    ... his policy views to be included in the party's platform and wants the party to become more inclusive of independent and working-class voters. Recalling her own campaign against Obama in 2008, Clinton's team has avoided urging Sanders to leave the race. But if Sanders loses California, he ...

  • Beyond California, Sanders signaling post-primary future

    Beyond California, Sanders signaling post-primary future

    Jun 04, 2016 05:15 PM EDT

    ... also wants the party to become more inclusive of independent and working-class voters and make it easier for independents to vote in future primaries. Recalling her own campaign in 2008, Clinton's team has avoided urging Sanders to leave the race. But if Sanders loses California, he's likely ...

  • Surviving the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' in Athens

    Surviving the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' in Athens

    May 08, 2016 05:43 PM EDT

    ... fellow Greeks." Kofinas was one of those so-called "hidden children." Seated on the temple's original benches from the 1920s, he shakes his head, recalling a painful past. "I grew up without parents," he said. He remembered that Friday in 1944, when he watched his mother grow more and ...

  • A look at the policy divide between Trump and Ryan

    A look at the policy divide between Trump and Ryan

    May 06, 2016 08:23 PM EDT

    ... Medicare even as other Republicans, Ryan chief among them, see no choice but to restrain their cost. "He represented cutting entitlements," Trump said this year, recalling Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012. "That was the end of the campaign. I said, 'you've got to be kidding ...

  • Iowa Democrats face criticism over missteps at caucus sites

    Iowa Democrats face criticism over missteps at caucus sites

    Feb 02, 2016 10:29 PM EDT

    ... to have ended in "a virtual tie." "It is Groundhog Day today," said John Deeth, a Democratic Party activist who organized caucuses in Johnson County, recalling the 2012 criticism of the state's Republican caucuses. "And it feels like Groundhog Day. We're having the same thing happen, just on ...

  • South Carolina governor to sign bill removing Confederate flag from statehouse

    South Carolina governor to sign bill removing Confederate flag from statehouse

    Jul 09, 2015 02:26 PM EDT

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner.

  • NBC suspends news anchor Brian Williams; satirical news anchor Jon Stewart signals departure
  • How a simple ‘hello’ became the first message sent via the Internet

    How a simple ‘hello’ became the first message sent via the Internet

    Feb 09, 2015 05:06 PM EDT

    No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind. Just months after the first manned moon landing, the ARPANET, granddaddy to the World Wide Web, was brought to life with a...