Roger Smith

On the local public-affairs front this weekend: ***”Flashpoint” features Democrats headed to the Florida Legislature: Rep.-elect Mike Clelland, Rep.-elect Linda Stewart and Sen.-elect Darren Soto. Lauren Rowe asks about their personal...

Times Editor Russ Stanton sent the following announcement to the newsroom: Cathleen Decker, who co-directed our outstanding coverage of last year’s California gubernatorial and Senate campaigns, has taken on a new assignment: editor of our 2012...

"Sotomayor Vote Sets a Partisan Tone," read the headline over a news report published Tuesday detailing how the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to send Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the full Senate. Citing the headline and other language in....

Director Michael Moore now wants nothing less than the complete overthrow of the modern capitalist system. From Reuters in Venice today: Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie...

Dec. 27, 1959: The Times leads with the Nixon-Rockefeller story. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) expresses strong support for Nixon. Times Political Editor Kyle Palmer, as to be expected, is all for Nixon. Nixon calls for job training for African...

Friday April 10, 1998      Michael Moore is definitely a prankster, but calling him merry is stretching the point. Writer, director and protagonist of his own documentaries, a practiced performer who knows how to be amusing on camera, Moore is deadly...

When President Bush called on Americans to "finish the work of the fallen" in Iraq, he did not expect that filmmaker Michael Moore would answer. Moore has more than answered. He has responded with a vengeance in "Fahrenheit 9/11," a blistering...