The Republican Party is a diverse thing, allowing for both business leaders who hold fiscally conservative policies and for small-town farmers who have no interest in larger business to lay claim to membership. But perhaps no greater example of the Republican Party’s extended membership exists than the Tea Party activists, in all their enraged glory. [...]

Republican politics have changed ever since Sarah Palin came to town. To think that prior to her nomination as the Republican Vice President, no one knew her name except those in her own state, is startling, to say the least. Now, she is as prominent a player in Republican politics as anyone, and her name [...]

Republicans in America are hoping to seize control of the House and Senate in the mid-term elections this year, and they are going to have a difficult time of it, not least because of the latest issues to arise out of political impropriety. Michael Steele, the Republican Party’s chairman, recently was found to have visited [...]