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IRS building

It’s absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.

Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire is confused about the connection between the Tea Party and conservative cultural populism.

This year’s conservative confab was strained by discord, with gays pitted against the Christian right and Islamophobes battling conservative Muslims.

As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?

Its partisans may be in search of political purpose, but that shouldn't make liberals complacent.

The Tea Party candidate was never a contender, but her supporters—who rallied around her slogan of “I’m You”—aren’t going away.

Conventional wisdom says Republicans made gains in the midterms because Obama tried to do too much and was too liberal. Wrong.

On a night when Republicans pulled off the largest shift in party power since 1938, they also seemed, paradoxically, to be an endangered species.

As Democrats survey the wreckage left by the 2010 midterms, one sight is at least slightly cheering: Sarah Palin's Mama Grizzlies licking their wounds.

Katrina vanden Heuvel joins a panel of journalists, writers and political strategists to dissect the Democrat's prospects for this year's midterm elections.

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The Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota is headed for the first-caucus state of Iowa. She's openly discussing a presidential bid. But would she really run? Only "if I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do."

January 8, 2011

This week sees the 150th anniversary of the secession of South Carolina—the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. And of course, the anniversary brings with it the predictable repetition of myths: the South seceded because those Northern elites wouldn't let them govern themselves! It was about states' rights and freedom.

December 21, 2010

After meeting with the Tea Party's favorite congresswoman, the high court's most partisan justice announces he will deliver the inaugural address to Bachmann's House caucus.

December 15, 2010

Readers respond to Obama's controversial tax cut compromise.

December 10, 2010

New data reveals how top political reporters are framing the midterm results in recent questions and press conferences.

November 9, 2010

Tea Party candidates made big news, but they ran in small states.

November 3, 2010

As Republicans are about to take over the House, Stewart and Colbert set the stage for Tuesday's elections.

October 31, 2010

But did they ever have them to begin with?

October 27, 2010

The Republicans' reliance on corporate underwriting belies their recent commitment to populist democratic action.

October 20, 2010

Betsy Reed and Rebecca Traister talk about the rise of conservative women in the 2010 elections.

October 5, 2010
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