Christopher Lamb

In mid-October 1945, Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, learned that New York City mayor Fiorella La Guardia was going to call for the three New York City major league teams -- the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers -- to integrate their squads in his next weekly radio address. Rickey...

In Game Change, the HBO movie about the 2008 presidential campaign that airs on March 10, Julianne Moore portrays former Vice President Sarah Palin as blindly ambitious, emotionally unstable and intellectually unfit for national office. Moore's Palin, according to David Hinckley of the New York Daily News, has "a look...

My wife, 10-year-old son, and I live in Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, S.C., on a street where nearly everyone has at least one child between the ages of 7 and 12. Every afternoon seven or eight boys are in my next-door neighbor's yard playing football and not inside...

When Sarah Palin was spotted near the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, supporters, journalists, and photographers ran to her side. When it was discovered that the woman was really Patti Lyons, a Palin impostor, the crowd stayed.

Journalists interviewed her and photographers photographed her. Supporters of...

During my first semester at the College of Charleston 15 years ago, I was teaching a journalism writing course where I gave weekly current-events quizzes. During one quiz a few weeks after the semester began, I asked which state finished 50th in the country on SAT test scores, according to...

Carolyn Mahoney, a senior at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, says she's been paying close attention to the 2012 presidential campaign. Mahoney, a double major in communications and political science, says that the campaign has relevance to her academic interests. But more than that, she says that...

While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, state representative Nikki Haley campaigned against wasteful spending. If she were elected, she promised fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. She said her administration would be the most transparent in state history. Haley also vowed that she would protect South Carolina's business...

U.S. Sen. John McCain soundly defeated Texas Gov. George Bush in the Republican New Hampshire primary in January 2000 to become the frontrunner in the campaign to win the GOP's presidential nomination.

The Bush campaign knew it needed to win in South Carolina, the first primary in the South,...

Four years ago comedian Stephen Colbert announced he was running for president but only in his home state of South Carolina. He said he was running both as a Republican and a Democrat -- or a Republicrat.

The state's Democratic Party said it would not permit Colbert's name...