For decades, Steve Benson poked fun at the state’s political figures — first in the pages of the Arizona Republic, and more ...

A far-right governor is impeached, extremist sheriffs take root and the Arizona desert nurtures the Oklahoma City federal building bomber.

As a scion of LDS hierarchy, Steve’s life and career would become entwined in Arizona politics and cultural Mormonism as it merged in a single, historic figure named Evan Mecham.

Goldwater was no doubt referring to Ezra Taft Benson, Steve’s grandfather and a powerful figure as Dwight Eisenhower’s ...

Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more ...

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

If you think Arizona politics are wild now, then see what it was like in the 1980s with Ronald Watkins' history of Evan Mecham's short but tumultuous governorship.

It makes stops in the Barry Goldwater/John Birch Society era and revists the impact of notable figures such as impeached Gov. Evan Mecham and federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh. It continues ...

Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ousted by the Senate. He had been indicted by a state grand jury on allegations that he had failed to report a loan from a developer, but he would later ...

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.