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Mad Men's Transitional "Plan," Ironic or Not

William Bradley | Posted 05.14.2013 | TV
William Bradley

Another entertaining Mad Men episode brought the immediate aftermath of the precipitous merger between Don Draper's and Ted Chaough's rival agencies. This was a transitional episode, which nonetheless ended in tears, with the sudden assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Mad Men Gets a Bounce After Shaking Things Up

William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2013 | TV
William Bradley

After a long span of increasingly airless personal drama, followed by last week's intrusion of a major historical tragedy, the show got back to its advertising roots with a vengeance. In fact, the show may have re-booted itself, as it did at the end of Season 3. For once again, the old Sterling Cooper etc. is no more.

Mad Men Meets the Assassination of Martin Luther King

William Bradley | Posted 04.29.2013 | TV
William Bradley

The Flood is a good episode of Mad Men, especially in a Season 6 off to an uneven start. It came at a good time, too, reassuring that our characters are not all irretrievably stuck in tedious personal melodramas. That, actually, they can be very appealing people.

Mad Men: Are You Not Entertained?

William Bradley | Posted 04.23.2013 | TV
William Bradley

Will Mad Men regain the acclaim that made it the best drama on television? Based on the response to To Have and To Hold, so far the answer would have to be no.

Judge And Ex-Deputy To Robert F. Kennedy Dies

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 02.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Louis F. Oberdorfer, a former deputy to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s who later heard hundreds of cases as a federal j...

Walk 50 Miles In Robert F. Kennedy's Shoes (Actually, You Might Want Hiking Boots)

Posted 02.02.2013 | DC

For those who think that walking 31-some miles in one day is for wimps -- or isn't historic enough -- we've got the event for you. On Feb. 9, a gro...

JFK's Nephew: Fidel Castro Was 'An Amazing Guy'

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington | Posted 01.03.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Christopher Kennedy Lawford, the nephew of the late former President John F. Kennedy, on Thursday described an encounter he had with Cuban dictator Fi...

Nurses Sue Kennedy For $200,000

AP | Posted 11.28.2012 | New York

NEW YORK -- Two nurses have filed a $200,000 civil lawsuit against the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, accusing him of negligence, assault and...

Our Work Begins on November 7th

Ivanley Noisette | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics
Ivanley Noisette

Although it does mark the end of long and grueling campaigns, the day after Election Day should not be perceived as the end, but rather, the beginning.

Elizabeth Warren Would Be the Conscience of the United States Senate

Brent Budowsky | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

I have seen many Senators come and go and I have no doubt that if elected Elizabeth Warren would be the conscience of the Senate. Because she speaks for the best in you -- and me -- and Massachusetts -- and America.

George McGovern 1922-2012

Alex Simon | Posted 12.23.2012 | Politics
Alex Simon

In 2005, I had the good fortune to interview former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern for Venice Magazine. McGovern was thoughtful, direct, and kind-hearted; a gentleman and a gentle man.

Where Are the Heroes?

Bruce Kluger | Posted 12.19.2012 | Politics
Bruce Kluger

When I recall the things I admired most about Robert F. Kennedy -- his fire, his faith, his Quixote-like tilt against racial injustice -- I'm reminded that it's hard to find heroes like that anymore, especially during an election season.

New RFK Documents Include Mafia Plan To Assassinate Castro

AP | LINDSEY ANDERSON | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

BOSTON — Lined pages with a doodle of the Liberty Bell and a CIA document outlining a Mafia-connected plan to assassinate Fidel Castro for $150,...

What Role Can the Occupy Movement Play in the Upcoming Election?

Pearl Korn | Posted 10.20.2012 | Politics
Pearl Korn

The Occupy movement seems to have all but disappeared from media coverage over the past months. Is this due to the fever pitch of the presidential campaign, or has the movement's time come and gone?

Taylor Swift Gets Real (Estate) For Conor Kennedy

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 08.13.2012 | Celebrity

Taylor Swift has bought a Cape Cod house across the street from Ethel Kennedy, possibly to be near new love Conor Kennedy, People magazine confirmed o...

Are We Now a One-Party System?

Pearl Korn | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics
Pearl Korn

The Progressive Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln is long dead and buried. For the past 40 years, their crude replacements have conducted an unrelenting assault on our nation's democracy, values, humanity and rights.

Wife Of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Found Dead In Bedford Home

Posted 05.17.2012 | New York

Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has been found dead in her home in Bedford, New York, TMZ reports. Officials told TMZ th...

RFK Assassination Witness Makes Bombshell Claim

Posted 04.30.2012 | Politics

Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968, is making bombshell claims in a CNN intervie...

Kennedy Invokes Slain Father During Court Date

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 04.13.2012 | Politics

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- The son of Sen. Robert Kennedy invoked his father's assassination Thursday in a case stemming from his attempt to take his newbor...

Trayvon Martin: What RFK Said

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.26.2012 | Politics
Alan Grayson

It calls to mind the sentiments in the speech that Robert F. Kennedy gave from his heart on April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. This is what Robert F. Kennedy said.

Lawyers For Convicted RFK Assassin Argue Client Is Innocent

AP | By LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 11.29.2011 | Politics

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan argue in newly filed court documents that a bullet was switched in evidence ...

Dolores Huerta, The Icon And The Person

Monique Frausto | Posted 01.22.2012 | Latino Voices
Monique Frausto

I know she's an amazingly brave, strong, and intelligent woman. I know she's unstoppable. I can only imagine what she's seen in her lifetime.

It's Time for All Americans to Occupy Washington, D.C.

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.11.2012 | Politics
John W. Whitehead

Wall Street may embody corrupt business practices, but Washington, D.C., is where the collusion between government and business occurs, and that is ultimately what the Occupiers should be targeting.

Movie Review: J. Edgar

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.07.2012 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Let's see: Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar," which opens in limited release Wednesday (11/9/11) before going wider on Friday, features a fully committed per...

The "Jobs Creators" Brand Gets a Little Tarnished

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.29.2011 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

Corporate and financial elites have largely succeeded in seizing the current economic crisis of their own making to ram through attacks on social programs they've always despised. With Washington in their pockets they apparently believe that now is their time to contort the institutions of American society into a consortium servicing their narrow class interests. But the protests in Europe and on Wall Street are evidence that a growing number of people are on to them. The primordial moment for the pursuit of justice has begun.