Exit polls from 2016 to 2024 reveal surprising shifts among voters, undermining liberal tropes about racism and patriarchy driving Trump support. It’s time for new theories about America’s political divides.
A concern for human life, not international law, should drive opposition to the US “targeted killing” program.
On the literary destruction of Los Angeles and the nervous breakdown of American exceptionalism.
Bernie Sanders struggled last night not because voters are stupid, but because he's proposing a way of doing politics that's different from anything they've ever seen. Convincing them of that alternative is extremely difficult — but it's not impossible.
American leftists are constantly wrestling with the question of how to relate to the Democratic Party. The history of the UK Labour Party’s formation through a break with the Liberals a century ago is full of lessons for socialists today.
How liberals brought an anticommunist slur from America’s past back to life.
Liberals who generally support Israel, but find themselves cringing when Israeli politicians make racist remarks, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
In the anti-communist climate of the Cold War, prominent liberal thinkers abandoned the Enlightenment’s ambitions for a society of real freedom and equality. The consequences have badly warped US politics to this day.
The battle over New York’s Indian Point power plant was quietly a battle for the soul of American liberalism.
After years of rightward drift, the NDP has a shot at capturing Ontario's government this week with its most left-wing platform in years.
Canada’s New Democratic Party performed worse than expected in yesterday’s elections. But the party can’t take those results as a sign to water down their message — the NDP must continue to offer a left-wing program of taxing the rich and combating climate change.
By fixating on the Supreme Court, liberals have inherited the framers’ skepticism of popular sovereignty and mass politics.
Justin Trudeau may be decisively rejected in today’s Canadian election. The race has been shaken up by a surge in support for Jagmeet Singh and his social-democratic NDP, whose left-wing program is what many Canadians thought they were getting when they voted for Trudeau four years ago.
The CIA is rebranding as a rational, progressive arm of the US state. And some liberals are buying it.
As liberals defend their tradition from attack, their definition of liberalism has become so broad as to encompass everything and nothing at all. The truth is liberalism has become more about deference to elites than about challenging hierarchy.
Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, told us why all working people should be in trade unions — and why we can’t rely on anyone else to speak up on our behalf.
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda
Politics is about conflict. Assuming otherwise only empowers our political enemies.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 election ballot. The attempt will likely fail and backfire — but it's indicative of American liberalism's current distaste for the unpredictable messiness of democracy.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s farcical labeling of Justin Trudeau as a communist echoes hysterical historical precedents. The rhetoric underscores a cynical misunderstanding of both Trudeau’s policies and communism.