From Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the Tea Party, you can draw a line from 1964 to today. Barry Goldwater was never going to win the 1964 presidential election.

Most people knew Barry Goldwater as an Arizona icon, a politician and the father of American Conservatism who ran for president in 1964. But long before he entered politics he had established himself ...

Decades before President Donald Trump ever attacked the media, Senator Barry Goldwater introduced a new idea to the presidential campaign trail: liberal media bias. Goldwater was 1964’s Republican ...

He was going to clean that up and show what lasting American values really were. Goldwater was no bigot. He spoke with pride of his Jewish ancestry though he was not Jewish. He vehemently opposed the ...

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 ...

Supporters cheer Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) To the editor: I'm a registered Republican. I have been a ...

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Filmmaker CC Goldwater, tells the story of her late grandfather Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator and one-time candidate for president through a documentary to air on HBO. Barry Goldwater lived a ...

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. >> In Alison Goldwater Ross’ earliest memories of her grandfather Barry Goldwater, there’s always a 35mm camera hanging from his neck. The senator photographed more than 15,000 ...

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 ...

My photography has taken me over, literally, every mile of the Southwest, over both poles and every major country on the globe. But it is to Arizona that I turn for my inspiration and what I think has ...