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- Lara Brown: The Tea Partiers and the Lessons of History
- Kevin R. Kosar: What the Tea Party Could Learn from the Whiskey Rebellion
- Todd Zywicki: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
- Julian E. Zelizer: GOP Leaders, Beware the Newcomers
- Nils August Andresen: Why America’s Top Students Tune Out the GOP
- Sean Wilentz: Live by the Movement, Die by the Movement
- Colin Gordon: More Effective Government Would Neutralize Tea Party
- Robert Dallek: The Long View of the Tea Party
- Alan Brinkley: Obama vs. Tea Party: Think FDR vs. Huey Long
- Julian E. Zelizer: It's Tea Party vs. Bush and Obama
- Edmund Morris: The Tea Party Last Time
- Harold Meyerson: When Tea Party Wants to Go Back, Where Is It To?
- Stanley Kutler: Tea Party Robber Barons
- Sam Hitchmough: The Rise of the Tea Party: Competing Americas
- Andrew Romano: How Tea Partiers Get the Constitution Wrong
- Godfrey Hodgson: America’s mad-hatter politics
- Jill Lepore: Who Started the Tea Party?
- Peter Berkowitz: Why Liberals Don't Get the Tea Party Movement
- Vladimir Shlapentokh: How is Elitist Ayn Rand a Tea Party Hero?
- Omer Bartov: The Tea Party and Himmler's Black Legion
- Robert Reich: Reading America's Tea Leaves
- Sean Wilentz: The Tea Party’s Cold War Roots
- Julian E. Zelizer: Why Christine O'Donnell is Not You
- Daniel Hannan: Why Europeans Can't Throw a Tea Party
- Richard Striner: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
- Kevin Drum: Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles
- Steve Kornacki: Jimmy Carter's Tea Party
- Jimmy Carter: The 1970s Saw a Tea Party-Like Wave
- Jim Bencivenga: Tea Party is Rejuvenating American Politics
- Ron Chernow: The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party
- Tim Rutten: The GOP/'Tea' Party Radicalism
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Historian's Take on the Tea Party and the Media
- Michael Lind: The Right Picked the Wrong Historical Analogy
- Jacob Weisberg: The Tea Party's Anarchist Streak
- Julian E. Zelizer: Tea Party Promises Won't Last
- Josh Burek: Political Activism for the Rest of Us?
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev: Tea Party Will Have Jacksonian Foreign Policy
- Michael Tomasky: The Republicans Have Created a Frankenstein Monster
- Paul Goldman: Has Sarah Palin Saved the GOP?
- Elwood Watson: The Season of Racial Discontent
- Michael Lind: The War Socialism of the American Right
- Joan Walsh: When Blue-Collar Pride Became Identity Politics
- Ron Briley: Glenn Beck’s History Lesson: Amnesia and Conformity
- John J. Pitney Jr.: The GOP and the Temptation of Hubris
- Ariela Gross: Race, Law and Conservatism in America
- Andrew Leonard: Lyndon Johnson's Tea Party
- Julian E. Zelizer: Why Obama's Fate is Tied to Congressional Democrats
- Mark Tooley: Was the American Revolution Just?
- Jerry Adler: Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment
- Doug Kendall: Strange Brew: The Tea Party Mocks the Founders' Stance on Armed Rebellion
- Ari Rabin-Havt : The Willie Hortonization of Barack Obama
- Eugene Robinson: The Tea Party Must Purge Racism from its Ranks
- Matt Bai: Beneath Divides Seemingly About Race Are Generational Fault Lines
- Joel Richard Paul: Which Tea Party?
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: What the NAACP is Really Asking on Racism Within the Tea Party
- David Beito: The Tea Party Movement and Gay Marriage
- Julian E. Zelizer: Sarah Palin Likes Government Too
- Robert McHenry: The Radical Right in Retrospect
- Sasha Abramsky: Look Ahead in Anger
- Ruth Rosen: The Tea Party and the New Right-Wing Christian Feminism
Commentary (to July 2010)
Rand Paul
- Van Gosse: Thank You, Rand Paul (From a Historian)
- Jason Zengerle: The Roots of Rand Paul’s Radicalism
- Sherrilyn A. Ifill: Disturbing Lessons of the Rand Paul Fallout
- Kenneth W. Mack: Rethinking the Rand Paul Controversy
- Garrett Epps: Rand Paul's American Mistake: Taking 'New' for 'Unconstitutional'
- Mary L. Dudziak: Rand Paul's Constitutional Confusion
Glenn Beck
- Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck: “Historian” For a Troubled America
- Nicole Hemmer: Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are Not Guilty of Sedition -- But Over-the-Top 'Tea-Party' Rhetoric Doesn’t Help
The Tea Party & the American Revolution
- Mark Lilla: The Tea Party Jacobins
- Jill Lepore: Who Owns the American Revolution?
- T.H. Breen: Are Tea Party Protests Really Modeled on the American Revolution?
- Jim Sleeper: How the Modern Day Tea Partiers Missed the Message of 1773
- Gregory Rodriguez: America's Distrust of Government Started with George III
The Seventeenth Amendment
- Byron W. Daynes: Leave the Seventeenth Amendment Alone!
- Elizabeth Wydra: A Sober Look at Proposals to Repeal Portions of the Constitution
- David Firestone: So You Still Want to Choose Your Senator?
- Patrick Allitt: How to Succeed in Politics
- Stanley Kutler: It's Still All About Race
- Ruth Marcus: Unhinged on the Right
- Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Palin's Play of the Obama as Hitler Card Was Inevitable
- Matthew Continetti: The Two Faces of the Tea Party
- Randall Stephens: The Past is No Foreign Country
- Eleanor Clift: What Would the Tea Party Do?
- Joshua Horwitz:"Second Amendment Remedies"
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: How Obama Changed the Right
- Lee Harris: The Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals
- Doug Kendall & Hannah McCrea: The Tea Party Ought to Remember the Whiskey Rebellion
- Kevin R. Kosar: The Anger is Real; the Media Picture Isn't
- Timothy Egan: Backward, Into The Future
- John Sides: A Rebuttal to Mark Lilla on the Origins of the Tea Party
- Nicolaus Mills: Conservative Split with the Tea Party
- William Voegeli: The Meaning of the Tea Party
- Jeff Shesol: Populist Interest in the Constitution is Nothing New
- Fred Siegel: Insatiable Liberalism
- Cord Jefferson: Is the Tea Party the New Black Panther Party?
- The American History Guys: Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now [audio, 25 minutes 52 seconds]
- Tim Rutten: Newt's Tea Party
- Charles Postel: The Tea Party and the Dark Side of Conservatism
- Arun Gupta: Republicans and the Tea Party of No
- Charles L. Zelden: New Political Movements Seek a Hold on U.S. Politics
- Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
- Peggy Noonan: The Big Alienation Between the Government and the People
- Elwood Watson: Ugly Resistance Against the President Continues
- Bernard Weiner: Rage and Rebellion: How Will the Left Respond?
- Erik Christiansen and Jeremy Sullivan: The Tea Party Challenge to History
- Ron Rosenbaum: The Tea Party's Toxic Take on History
- Jonah Goldberg: Tea Parties a Delayed Bush Backlash
- Historians weigh in on the Tea Party in the NYT
- Alan Brinkley: The [Tea] Party of Me
- Rick Perlstein: The Same Old Grievances from the Tea Party
- Fred Schwarz: Tea Parties Old and New
- Charles Lane: The Tea Party, and a History of Going to Extremes
- Julian Zelizer: Risk for GOP Comes from Extreme Fringe
- Colbert I. King: In the Faces of Tea Party Shouters, Images of Hate and History
- Stanley Kutler: So Much for a ‘Post-Racial’ America
- Jesse Lemisch: Invoking"Sedition" Against Tea Partiers is Short-Sighted, Ahistorical, and Suicidal
- E.J. Dionne: Back to the 1830s ... Health Care and the New Nullifiers
- Jonah Goldberg: The Truth About the Tea Party
- Michael Barone: Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP
- Louise W. Knight: The Tea Party Movement Has Deep American Roots
- Alexander Zaitchik: Where Did David Brooks Get the Bizarre Idea That the Tea Party Crowd Resembles '60s Movements?
- Gabriel Winant: Why Does David Brooks Hate the Tea Partiers?
- David Brooks: Tea Partiers are the Wal-Mart Hippies
- Charles Postel: The Real Populist Tradition in America
- Walter Russell Mead: Drinking Tea in America Today
- Jason Capehart: A Scary Tea Party Looks Like Right-Wing Extremists in the 1990s
- Gail Collins: Time to Party Like It’s 1854
- Robert Zaretsky: France's Tea Party Movement in the 1950s
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