After years of hard work and sacrifice, your company gets acquired or goes public, backed by wealthy financiers. Oh, happy day! Years of sweat, struggle and undaunted perseverance have paid off. Go ...

The carpetbagger label was applied swiftly. As she floated her political ambitions, the candidate immediately ran into the sort of attacks facing any outsider — political or otherwise — in an area ...

Eight Democratic candidates are now running in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District, but two of them are facing accusations of carpetbagging.Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' son Levi Sanders is ...

John Fetterman, left, relentlessly ridiculed Mehmet Oz, right, with the label 'carpetbagger' during the U.S. Senate campaign, which Fetterman ultimately won. AP Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race between ...

American banking is the world’s most heavily regulated industry. Besides the well-known litany of laws and alphabet soup of regulations, there are more we don’t hear about. Section 109 of the ...

Democrats are hinging their hopes of retaining the Senate majority on voters' disdain for so-called "carpetbaggers." As Senate Democrats fight to keep several vulnerable incumbents from losing tough ...

The inimitable David Carr -- whom I would seriously listen to or read on anything-- is passing the Carpetbagging torch along. Carr plans to continue writing for the paper, but told Variety that last ...

Democratic congressional candidate Jessica Morse hadn’t even advanced to the general election when her campaign began airing an ad hitting Republican Rep. Tom McClintock on his residency. “In ten ...

Horton Foote's gift is for small, telling details, for capturing the rhythms of speech and conveying the smell, taste and mood of an environment. West Coast Ensemble's production of "The ...