Liberals and the Strike
The wave of teacher strikes is a challenge not just to GOP austerity, but to Democratic Party neoliberalism.
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Justin Trudeau’s Liberals Are Returning to the Miserable Status Quo
In spite of some concessions wrangled by the NDP, Canada’s new budget reveals Trudeau's Liberals are returning to free-market orthodoxy. The lessons of the pandemic have apparently taught the party nothing.
An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
The reparations demand survives as a parlor debate — it cannot address the real needs and interests of black workers.
Elon Musk’s Purge of Journalists Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Liberals About the Dangers of Online Censorship
Elon Musk’s petty-minded ban of several mainstream reporters has transformed many who previously dismissed free speech concerns on Twitter into outraged anti-censorship crusaders. However laced with hypocrisy, their about-face a good thing.
The Liberal Education Reform Revolt
Are liberals finally ready to oppose neoliberal education reform?
Canada’s Liberals Are Refusing to Deal With the Opioid Crisis
Canada’s New Democratic Party has introduced a new bill to decriminalize drug possession and improve harm-reduction measures. Passing it would need the support of the Liberals, who have thus far proved unwilling to fight for reform.
White Rural Rage Is Shallow Pandering to Elitist Liberals
White Rural Rage, full of tired tropes about the bigotry of rural white Americans, distorts more than it reveals about the growth of the Trumpian right. It’s a shallow exercise in pandering to the prejudices of liberals.
Bernie and the Liberals
Whatever the claims of the media, Bernie Sanders's appeal does not seem limited to liberals.
Liberal Corporate Media Ignores Government Wrongdoing When Liberals Are to Blame
After Southwest’s mass flight cancellations, liberal media refused to report on transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg’s failure to regulate the airlines — because media outlets now avoid journalism that could offend their audiences’ partisan loyalties.
By Failing to Transform the Philippines, Liberals Paved the Way for the Reactionary Right
Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the former dictator, won a crushing victory in this year’s Philippine presidential election. Responsibility for this disaster lies with the liberal politicians who failed to carry out the most basic social reforms while in power.
Liberals Should Stop Trying to Save the GOP. Republicans Don’t Want to Be Saved.
Despite the pious wishes of many leading Democrats, the “good old” Republican Party is never coming back. Over the past four decades, GOP leaders set out to transform the party into the perfect vessel for Trumpian extremism — and they succeeded beyond their wildest nightmares.
Why Are Liberals Constantly Fixated on “Competence” Instead of Politics?
Democrats for DeSantis? Seems hard to justify. William Cooper’s recent contrarian case for Ron DeSantis in the Orlando Sentinel is an unwittingly perfect satire of contemporary American liberalism’s technocratic obsessions.
Beltway Liberals Aren’t Fighting Biden’s Pro-Corporate Admin Picks Hard Enough
In praising the pro-corporate Washington hacks Joe Biden has chosen to staff his administration, liberal groups are betraying their missions in order to try to gain influence — despite that appeasement strategy rarely working in American history.
Why I’m Not a Liberal
To many liberals, injustice is a product of misunderstanding, the result of faceless processes that no one really benefits from.
Liberals Still Think Fact-Checking Will Stop the Right. They’re Wrong.
For today’s liberals, the default approach to combating the Right is to fact-check the Right. But conservatives aren’t contestants in a debating contest: they’re waging a political struggle and playing to win. Fact-checking won’t save us.
Don’t Let Liberals Write Off Workers in “Flyover Country”
The New York Times is trying to convince us that “Middle America” can never be won over to Bernie Sanders’s left-wing platform. Don’t listen to the nonsense — workers everywhere can and should be organized.
In Germany, Liberals Lead the Authoritarian Turn
The rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland has prompted a wave of troubled reactions in Germany. But authoritarianism isn’t just a far-right creation, and today, liberals are leading the charge against basic democratic freedoms.
Liberals and the Attack on Ilhan Omar
The Democrats’ treatment of Ilhan Omar isn’t just shameful. It feeds into the rhetoric of the global far right.
Canada’s Liberals Are Letting the Wealthy Write Their Own Tax Policy
Justin Trudeau’s government loves to tout its commitment to combating inequality. Now it’s pushing a special tax break for private jets.
Conflict-Averse Liberals
A conflict-averse person is OK; a conflict-averse politics is not.