"Border Control" Before "Border Security"

(First in three-part series on Border Patrol  prior to adopting the  "border security" framework.) Following the September 11 terr...

Securing Arizona -- Model State or Failed State?

(Excerpted concluding paragraphs from my cover article in new Boston Review, at:  http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/tom_barry_arizona_tea_party...

Koch Brothers Help Shape Arizona Politics

The Koch brothers are bankrolling the assault on unions in Wisconsin , as detailed in the New York Times and elsewhere.   The billionaire b...

Running on Empty in Arizona

Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce “That is what we ran on,” said State Senate President Russell Pearce, hailing the approval by both h...

Arizona's Tea Party Politics

Billboard in Tombstone, Arizona/Tom Barry Arizona’s state politics are especially predictable – and bizarre. The predictability comes from t...

Phoenix, "The Rebirth of American Culture," Say Tea Party Patriots

Talk about a cultural war. The Tea Party Patriots are holding their American Policy Summit in Phoenix this month (Feb. 25-26) – calling Phoe...

Showdown in Cochise County

Chief Cochise   A high desert carved by washes and draws, by the canyons and gulches that descend from snow-covered crest of the Chiricahua ...