During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in ...

Rob Reiner, the American director, actor and political activist whose comedies became part of the popular lexicon, has died ...

Rob Reiner, who has died aged 78, was one of America’s best-known sitcom actors before transmogrifying into a leading film ...

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He was one of the greatest magazine editors of the 20th century, an ideologue who remade the American right, and a ...

Perhaps taking a lesson from other embattled figures like Richard Nixon, who infamously resigned from the presidency before ...

Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and ...

When TV viewers tuned in on March 19, 1978, for the Season 8 finale of CBS’s landmark comedy “All in the Family” (1971-1979), ...

Born and raised in West Lynn, in the “shade of the General Electric plant,” Alan I. Saltman grew up in a working-class household shaped by loss and perseverance. When Saltman was 4, his father, who ...

For Rob Reiner, politics was much too personal and important a project to be left to politicians. Like Michael Stivic, the ...

Fear was the main tool used to convince the public that it was essential for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq. The manufacturing of fear was evident in a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney in August ...

With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...