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Tea Party
October 14, 2013
Sam Tanenhaus
How That Confederate Flag at the White House Got There
The intellectual romance of the new right and the old south
October 8, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Barney Frank Talks Shutdown, Calls an Old Colleague "Weird and Dissociated"
October 7, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
The 12 Craziest Things Ever Said About Obamacare
September 30, 2013
Michael Kazin
Why Aren't Those New, Millennial Liberals Protesting the Shutdown?
September 27, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Meet the Congressman Who is Leading Us to a Credit Default
August 29, 2013
Nate Cohn
Tea Party and the GOP Base Are Out of Step on Syria
August 28, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
In Michigan, a Defeat for the Tea Party—and Victory for Common Sense
August 26, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Washington Post Makes the Tea Party's Favorite Point
August 8, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Even Mitch McConnell's Campaign Manager Can't Stand Him
August 8, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Tea Party to Republicans: Shut Down the Government, or You're a Sellout
July 31, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
John McCain, Undecided 2016 Voter
An exclusive interview on Fox News, Tea Party nihilism, and Hillary Clinton vs. Rand Paul in 2016
July 29, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Conservatives 'Won' the Phony IRS Scandal. And Democrats Helped Them.
July 22, 2013
Molly Redden
Kentucky Might Finally Turn on Mitch McConnell
July 16, 2013
Julia Ioffe
How the Tea Party's "Black Conservatives" Reacted to the Zimmerman Verdict
July 15, 2013
Molly Redden
The Awkward Racial Politics of Immigration Reform
June 20, 2013
Michael O'Donnell
Will the Tea Party Die When Obama Leaves Office?
May 13, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Real Scandal Behind the IRS Controversy
It wasn't the agency's targeting of conservative groups, but which of those groups it targeted
March 4, 2013
John B. Judis
Throw the Bums Out!
The populist moment in Europe and the United States
February 8, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Is the Fever Breaking?
On issues like Medicaid and military spending, signs of a Republican rift
February 1, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Goodbye to the Scott Brown Era
The blue state Tea Party was short—and traumatic

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