William Ayers

Ayers, Wright Talk Mideast Peace At Chicago Church

AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


OAK PARK, Ill. — Two men who created waves for President Barack Obama on the campaign trail have appeared together at a suburban Chicago church ...

Ayers Lecture Protested By Pennsylvania GOP Lawmakers

Associated Press | Posted 03.23.2009 | Chicago


MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Republican state representatives from central Pennsylvania have written to university officials urging them to cancel an upc...

Former Weather Underground Member: Ayers "Disingenuous"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


Former Weather Underground member Howard Machtinger argues in an "In These Times" essay that Bill Ayers "glosses over" the violence of the organizatio...

Bill Ayers Lecture Plans Cause Controversy At Pennsylvania School

Associated Press | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago


MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - A scheduled speech by radical-turned-professor William Ayers is causing dissension at Millersville University in central Pennsylva...

Bill Ayers To Publish Graphic Novel

Publishers Weekly | Calvin Reid | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media


Teachers College Press, a scholarly, professional and trade publisher focused on the theory and practice of teacher education, has reached agreement ...

Bill Ayers Calls Attempt To Have Him Fired 'Absurd'

Chicago Tribune | Steve Brosinski | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago


Calling a state senator's push to get him axed from his public university job "frivolous," William Ayers on Thursday said lawmakers have more importan...

State Senator Proposes Legislation To Have Bill Ayers Fired From State University Job

Chicago Tribune | Ashley Rueff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Chicago


A Republican in the Democratic-dominated Illinois Senate wants to fire university professor William Ayers, whose history as a 1960s radical became a n...

Bill Ayers Refused Entry To Canada

Toronto Star | Debra Black | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago


An American education professor, one of the founders of a radical 1960s group known as the Weather Underground, which was responsible for a number of ...

Jason Linkins

Bill Ayers On Hardball: Calls Accusations "Profoundly Dishonest" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media


"I don't tend to watch television news...I have three grown sons who kind of filter those things and they sent it to me." That's Bill Ayers, making a...

Ayers On GMA: GOP Used "Dishonest Narrative ... To Demonize Me"

ABC News | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics


ABC News' "Good Morning America" featured an interview with "campaign boogeyman" William Ayers Friday, his first since the election: Ayers remained ...

Bill Ayers Calls Obama A 'Family Friend' In Updated Book

Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago


In a new afterword to his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers refers to himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama, according to...

Bill Ayers Going On "Good Morning America" Friday

ABC News | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics


In his first first television interview since he became the center of controversy in the Presidential race, Chicago activist Williams Ayers breaks his...

Remove Lieberman from all Domestic Security and National Security Roles

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

Lieberman is dangerous on so many levels and hasn't offered any explanation that should make Americans feel comfortable with him as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security.

Did You Hear The One About Barack Obama And.....

Mark Joseph | Posted 12.09.2008 | Media


Mark Joseph

The media's collective failure means that for the next four years we will have a cottage industry of Obama rumormongering that will make Bill Clinton and Vince Foster look like child's play.

Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'

The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago


Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...

The President-Elect

Terence Smith | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Terence Smith

Barack Obama seems to have an almost perfect ear for the American political pulse, a kind of political GPS that tells him where people are and where they want to go.

Fox News: Ayers Votes In Chicago (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


Fox News shifts its coverage from Bill Clinton "to a very different kind of Barack Obama supporter" -- Bill Ayers, who voted at the same Hyde Park loc...

Republicans Embrace the Cootie Effect

Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Stephen Zunes

Though it is easy to dismiss the Republican reliance on the cootie effect and guilt-by-association as a sign of desperation, it would be a mistake to underestimate its potential impact.

Seth Colter Walls

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics


The latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some collateral damage for its own candidate....

Indiana Smears Cause Voter Backlash

Chuck Lasker | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home


Chuck Lasker

After receiving an email smear, one Indiana voter wrote: "I am outraged that the Republican Party sent this kind of smut to my home ... There is no place in this election [for] this garbage. It will not work; not this time."

Americans Still Undecided on How Much to Hate Undecided Voters

Jason Notte | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


Jason Notte

Observers from both sides of the aisle should seize upon this opportunity and focus their collective rage at its source: undecided voters.

A Muslim American's Take on Colin Powell's Speech

Wajahat Ali | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


Wajahat Ali

Powell's surprisingly tolerant words reflect a growing Republican self-awareness of previously unchecked "smear by Muslim association" rhetoric.

The Days Dwindle Down

Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics


Norman Horowitz

It is at times difficult to remember that McCain, Palin, and Mike Duncan never want answers, for if they had them they would be unable to continue with their accusations.

McCain's 'Life On Mars' Is The Real Thing -- And Much More Scary

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


Art Brodsky

The 1970s mindset is spreading beyond simply the presidential campaign in truly scary ways. As a result of the McCain/Palin campaign, the chicken academicians politicians have been been brought back.

The Big Lie At The Heart Of McCain's Ayers Campaign

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media


Stephen C. Rose

In a deep sense, this election really is about turning the page on the thinking that would divide us by whether we have regrets about Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or war period.