Enik Rising

Alert reader Marc Herman points me to this piece by Michael Lind at Salon . Lind notes the regional patterns of the Tea Party: Whether b...

Betsy Russell chronicles some interesting goings-on in state legislatures of late in a recent article in the Spokesman-Review: Montana law...

Is a political activist's job to advance an ideal or to advance the party that purportedly stands for that ideal?  If this question inte...

Jonathan Bernstein notes an interesting phenomenon from the past year.  In three different elections (Alaska Senate, Colorado governor, and...

Whom did various Tea Party groups endorse in the general election?  The Washington Post has a really nice page devoted to this topic.

Did Tea Party influence cause Republicans to nominate a large number of unqualified candidates?  Via John Sides , Brendan Nyhan looks at th...

I've been getting a lot of questions from students and reporters about what to make of the Tea Party.   Fareed Zakaria had a whole panel...

I'd been thinking about writing a response to Marc Ambinder's recent piece on declining parties, but Hans Noel nailed it .

Building off Eric Ostermeier' s profile of the congressional Tea Party caucus, Michael Tofias decided to map them: Tofias notes how di...