Douglas C. Pizac / AP Mitt Romney is shown in October 2001, when he was president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. On Saturday evening, Romney was to speak at a celebration honoring the 10-year anniversary of the games. By Michael Isikoff, NBC News

The tea party referendum has officially begun. Despite the success of tea party candidates all over the country in 2010, many top GOP Senate candidates have avoided the same kind of tough insider-outsider primary matchups that made the summer of 2010 so

Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote "the bible" for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush. Now he's a heretic

Shira Schoenberg can be reached at sschoenbergglobe.com. Follow her on Twitter shiraschoenberg. In a fight to be seen as the most fiscally conservative presidential candidate, Republicans Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have been attacking one another fo

In mid-March, a small army of interested citizens will attend neighborhood precinct caucuses to elect delegates to their party's statewide convention, where candidates for nearly all public offices will be nominated for a place on the ballot. Democrats w

Romney at the SLC Olympics Mitt Romney, in pledging to turn around the Olympics in 2002, had promised to restore the honor and integrity of the scandal-clouded Salt Lake City. The Games captured the world’s attention and became all the more urgent after