Democrat Gary Hart, with his wife, Lee, waves to supporters at a news conference in Denver on March 11, 1988, after announcing he would withdraw from the 1988 presidential race for the second time ...

They’re grayer now and thicker around the middle, with real jobs, families and responsibilities. But they still cling to the idealism that led them to work for Gary Hart’s come-from-nowhere ...

Olthea Ludwig "Lee" Hart, the wife of former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, died Friday at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after a brief illness ...

(May 10, 1987) Gary Hart, 50, was the presidential front-runner with everything in his favor. The voice on the telephone was offering evidence to The Herald that could undo it all.

Affair allegations in 1988 derailed Gary Hart’s, played by Hugh Jackman in 'The Front Runner,' presidential campaign. Here’s what happened next, and what he's doing today.

In a new book on the 1987 episode that wrecked Gary Hart’s presidential chances, Matt Bai argues that it marks the moment when political reporting went tabloid.

Gary Hart has had quite an eventful life. "Oh, boy!" he laughed. "Yes, I think that may be the understatement of the day. Much, much more eventful than I ever anticipated." And when correspondent ...

More than 30 years after he refused to address a Washington Post reporter’s question about whether he had ever committed adultery, former Democratic senator Gary Hart still isn’t answering ...

What are we to make of the deathbed confession of the political operative Lee Atwater, newly revealed, that he staged the events that brought down the Democratic candidate in 1987?

The Front Runner is a detailed re-telling of the implosion of Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign. This unfolded over just a few weeks, starting when Hart and Donna Rice met on a chartered ...