16th December 1773: Artist's rendering of the Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, December 16, 1773. A group of Bostonians threw tea into Boston harbour as a protest against the British ...

The anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most infamous protests leading up to the American Revolution, is days away. In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty took ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “Even if the Tea Party’s ideas are dead,” wrote Jeremy W. Peters, “its attitude lives ...

This time around, there will be no “Indians” at the Boston Tea Party. On Dec. 16, 1773, some of the 100 to 150 colonists who boarded three ships and tossed their tea into the Boston Harbor disguised ...

LONDON - This year marks 250 years since the Boston Tea Party, an event many see as a catalyst for American independence from the British Empire. The anniversary isn't until December, but a key part ...

The Boston Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes, but rather against taxation without representation. Modern-day parallels exist where corporate lobbying and concentrated power overshadow ...

That may be so. But political scientists like me have been studying the impact of the Tea Party on American politics for over a decade. And this research tells us that the Tea Party also offers some ...