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A Tea Party Express coordinator said Monday that the group’s expulsion from a national group over a member’s blog posting about the N.A.A.C.P. was “arrogant and preposterous.”

In the discussion about race and politics in the Obama era, we tend not to recognize the generational divide that underlies it.

Sarah Palin is leaving a major footprint on the 2010 midterm elections, but it is less clear whether her endorsements are part of a strategy for the future.

The president of the group plans to use its annual convention to get people “off the couch” and re-energized to fight back against the Tea Party movement.

How one company is adjusting to a new relationship with a financial backer that has a different way of doing business.

Kiley Holliday is co-owner of l’Âge de Thé and travels to select teas for the company and for Bosie, a teahouse in New York she co-owns.

Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings this week were the first of the Tea Party era, with questions touching on the very ideas that animate the movement.

Kusmi Tea of Paris opens its first store in the United States.

Sharron Angle, a Tea Party darling, has refused to talk to reporters, which has only awakened sleepy local TV news crews.

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona told a Tea Party group that the president was playing politics with border security.

Sharron Angle is toning down some of her pugnacious stances in the U.S. Senate race in Nevada, but not when it comes to her comments on guns.

President Obama’s relationship with many Americans has soured. But it isn’t too late to patch things up if both sides acknowledge their culpability and compromise.

In Utah, registered Republicans are allowed to cast a Democratic primary ballot, which could lead to mischief.

The Fox Business Network, which has had trouble finding a loyal audience, is whipping things up with a Tea Party-esque talk show.

Senator Blanche Lincoln survived in Arkansas, and Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman won in California on a night that suggested the unpredictability of the election season.

Can the controversial former C.E.O. of Hewlett-Packard become the next Republican senator from California?

It’s primary season! There are some big ones next week, and Republicans smell blood.

The results dealt a fatal blow to the efforts of Steve Levy to become the nominee after leaving the Democrats in March.

Undoing the 17th Amendment so state legislatures, not voters, choose senators would have unpopular side effects.

Senator Scott Brown’s readiness to work with Democrats has raised the ire of some who backed his candidacy.