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David Brooks suggests that today's Tea Partiers bear a striking resemblance to 1960s-era New Leftists: brash, noisy and naïve, and not to be taken very seriously.

God, life and family get little mention in the party’s statements, with the focus instead on fiscal responsibility.

Whatever their opinions of the Tea Party movement, scholars say a fight over founding principles can be a good thing.

"The Paranoid Style of American Politics," published in 1964, is being invoked to analyze developments like the Tea Party movement, the stardom of Sarah Palin and the claims of right-wing talk radio.

For months the right has had the momentum. Is the left too “snakebit” to snatch it back?

The Tea Party’s raging against the machine echoes an older radicalism from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

The Coffee Party was formed on the opening premise that the federal government “is not the enemy of the people.”

Mitch Daniels, Republican of Indiana, has become America’s best governor. Is that enough to drive a presidential campaign in 2012?

Violent invective, once largely confined to blogs and talk radio, is now spreading among Republicans in public office or aspiring to it.

Keli Carender, 30, is credited with holding the first protest that bloomed into the Tea Party movement.

Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney offered a portrait of how they plan to run against President Obama, and seek to harness Tea Party energy.

Politicians often get into trouble when they’re trying to sound more furious than they feel.

Chicago conservatives like Eric Odom have put a highly visible stamp on the Tea Party movement.

The Conservative Political Action Conference produced a sometimes incongruous meshing of mainstream Republicans with often rowdy activists.

The trick in conservative circles today is to get just furious enough about Washington’s encroachment onto states’ rights without quite falling over the edge into Fort Sumter.