Greg Mitchell

Political consulting and dirty tricks as we know them today can be traced back to a single race — in 1934.

A new book tells the story of young West Germans who risked their lives to dig escape tunnels under the Berlin Wall, and two U.S. television networks who raced to cover the story. 

A look at the secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall -- and the JFK administration's efforts to stifle reporting on them.

Sixty-eight years ago Upton Sinclair, muckraking journalist and erstwhile socialist, won the primary for the governorship of California by a landslide. The response from the state's newspapers and the motion picture industry was swift and merciless: they used every trick they could think of to defeat him. In 2010, Brooke spoke to Greg Mitchell, author of The Campaign of the Century, who argued that, for better or worse, the anti-Sinclair effort ushered in the modern political campaign.

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Business Takeout: New York Times finance reporter Louise Story explains why Goldman Sachs is paying its 30 top people bonuses entirely in stock, rather than cash. Publishing Takeou...