During the 1960s, the "Cardinal" developed a national reputation for its vehement far-left politics. They were the first American newspaper to send reporters to Cuba, and after two of the "Cardinal"’s editors and two other campus radicals carried out the largest and most destructive car bomb attack until that point in United States history, the Sterling Hall bombing, the "Cardinal" ran editorials endorsing the bombing. They ran several editorials strongly protesting the Vietnam War and supporting causes of Civil Rights. In 1969, a group of conservative UW students, frustrated by the "Cardinal"’s unrelenting liberalism, founded "The Badger Herald" as a right-wing alternative. Until recently, UW-Madison was one of few American universities with competing daily news publications, though starting in 2014 that competition largely shifted online with the Cardinal cutting Friday editions and the Herald publishing print issues once a week.