This is a lightly edited version of remarks delivered on July 11 at the opening dinner of The Public Interest Fellowships ...

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he ...

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Barry, a Democrat who failed to unseat Green in November, took a swipe at the three-term incumbent. "He’s a quitter," Barry said in a video posted to Instagram.Start the day smarter. Get ...

Phyllis Schlafly looms large in any history of the conservative movement. Schlafly didn’t just galvanize women who’d been ...

Barry Goldwater was nicknamed “Mr. Conservative,” but now even liberals adore him. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. penned an essay a few years back effusive in its praise for Goldwater, whom he ...

Goldwater's impact on the Republican Party was immediate and irreversible, said Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.

At the height of the 1964 race between Arizona’s junior senator, Barry Goldwater, and President Lyndon Johnson, the cover headline of Fact magazine’s September–October issue practically screamed: ...

In his books about Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and other figures on the right, he was, one observer said, “a keeper of the flame and spreader of the gospel.” By Trip Gabriel Lee Edwards, a ...

Alabamians not only voted for Barry Goldwater but also pulled the straight Republican lever out of anger toward Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights agenda.Alabama’s eight-member congressional ...

That hard turn started 60 years ago this week when Republicans nominated Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona at the July 13-16, 1964, Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace near San Francisco.

Senator Barry Goldwater makes a speech accepting the Republican Party nomination for the Presidency. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The Republican National Convention is underway in Milwaukee.