Moderate voters are not like the people who purport to speak for them. And that’s crucial for Democratic candidates and strategists, as well as journalists, to understand. They're not looking for a nominee with a Republican-lite platform.
How the socialist left and the anti-Trump Resistance are slowly but surely learning to work together.
The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.
Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.
This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself.
Off-the-record, some liberals support Trump on a case-by-case basis. In normal times, finding overlapping interests with your political adversaries makes sense. But let’s be clear: Trump will not be playing by the rules of normal politics.
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
Naomi Klein’s latest book explores how her “Doppelganger”, Naomi Wolf, embraced far-right conspiracies. Their divergent paths contain lessons for socialist organizing today.
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism....
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