Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The top housing official reached for his favorite right-wing bogeyman to blame for his embarrassing House hearing. The morning after Housing and Urban ...

Though he’s not exactly a household name, Saul Alinsky has come to have a defining influence on the politics of our time. The founder of modern community organizing and the author of the hugely ...

Recently, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked 22 scholars to recommend books that speak to the recent campus protests. The contributors are an academic who’s who and include the anthropologists ...

Former 2016 White House hopeful Ben Carson suggested on Monday that Donald Trump’s campaign rallies could attract even more violence in the coming weeks if Trump’s opponents continue trying to disrupt ...

Has the ghost of Saul Alinsky, the noted community organizer, been invoked once again? If so, it may be in the form of protests against noted GOP congress members—or at the very least, his name will ...

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 ...

Saul Alinsky most likely was not a good person. He praised Lucifer in his seminal work Rules for Radicals. Still, the iconic leftist’s brand of revolutionary activism continues to influence even ...