Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republicans gathered in Milwaukee this week to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, a continuation of the GOP’s ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Goldwater landslide, which was the tidal wave that swept the Deep South into the Republican Party. Alabama and the South had voted solidly Democratic ...

It almost seemed like a nominating convention. The organ roared; there were banners, signs and demonstrators. Then, as 1,800 Republicans cheered, clapped and whistled, Arizona’s Republican Senator ...

Arizona was once a deep-red state known for the conservative GOP politics of Sen. Barry Goldwater and his successor, John ...

The Supreme Court stopped Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. But the far right campaign to redefine 'American' is ...

I imagine Barry Goldwater might be rolling over in his grave, to know that Donald Trump will be in the house. Specifically, in his house. On Saturday, Donald Trump will stand on the patio from which ...

The conscience of a conservationist : Barry Goldwater and the Colorado River / Andrew Needham -- Drafting a movement : Barry Goldwater and the rebirth of the Arizona Republican Party / Elizabeth Tandy ...

A statue of Barry Goldwater in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. (Andrew Harnik/For The Washington Post) I have followed with some sympathy Michael Gerson’s columns on his alienation from the modern ...

If it was not a new Republican Party that emerged from San Francisco’s Cow Palace last week, it was at least a much different one. It spoke with the accents of small-town America. Its muscle came no ...

Barry Goldwater marched through Dixie last week, hitting 14 cities during a four-day, eight-state tour of the Old Confederacy. In Memphis, he drew 30,000 people to the grassy slopes of River Bluff, ...