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...March 9 at 100. Few people believed Doris would survive the year when, at the age of 88, she began a Sisyphean walk across America to promote campaign-finance reform. Her lungs hurt badly, and her knees hurt worse, but after 3,200 miles, Doris was greeted in Washington by the cheers of thousands of supporters. Her bill passed. When she was 94, Doris unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for one of New Hampshire's Senate seats. I made a documentary about her hardscrabble run against incumbent Judd Gregg. Fueled by bacon, catnaps and a deep belief that "democracy...
Increasingly these local-control activists are finding common cause with the militias. "Both have an antifederal outlook," says Dan Barry of the Environmental Working Group in Washington. "They run into each other because they have similar priorities." Indeed, their complaints are often indistinguishable. "We've been pushed so far by rules and regulations, the feds are in our pockets so deep, people are outraged," says Ronny Rardin, a commissioner in New Mexico's Otero County. The land-reform rebels have also been developing an appetite for militia-style conspiracy theories. "The New World Order will be running our lives through...
...movement's communications network is often more sophisticated than its judgment, which means that any mysterious incident gets blown into a conspiracy epic. Take, for instance, the "invasion" of Okanogan County in northwest Washington State. It began last September when a local cattle rancher stumbled across a backwoods military camp teeming with men in fatigues. Word quickly spread that the invasion of U.N. troops had finally begun. When concerned citizens showed up at Sheriff Jim Weed's office, Weed grabbed the telephone and soon learned that the men in cammies were actually border-patrol officials conducting a joint operation with...
...only thing the Oath Team has done on the HBS campus this year was hold one panel of professors, which was a great event,” Daubin said. “Otherwise, they’ve been writing editorials in external news sources like The Washington Post...
Wale, the stage name of 25-year-old Washington, D.C. rapper Olubowale Folarin, will be performing along with fellow hip-hop artist Kid Cudi and indie folk singer-songwriter Patrick Park...