Politicians today often describe their opponents as being on the far left or the far right in an effort to de-legitimize their politics. And the meanings of left and right can still change once again.

Left-wing culture, especially online, could be censorious, leaving many who interacted with it afraid of saying the wrong ...

Recently, prominent liberal political commentator Matt Yglesias wrote an article arguing that the key differences are that the right supports religion and hierarchy, while the left is secularist ...

The Right today often sounds like the Left of yore. ... Our Political World, Topsy-Turvy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1926–2006 (Luba Myts) Share Comments Listen. By Jay Nordlinger.

The time has come to scrap the political spectrum. Political metaphors help us to make sense of the world around us. The metaphor of left, right, and center has done that for well over two ...

The left-right divide might be a division between social identities based on class or region or race or gender, but it is certainly not a clash between different political ideas.

Doing so causes many on the left to dismiss what is, to my mind, the best explanation of the far right’s rise — one that focuses on a change to the ideological structure of global politics ...

Doing so causes many on the left to dismiss what is, to my mind, the best explanation of the far right’s rise — one that focuses on a change to the ideological structure of global politics.

culture-war politics, left and right are moving — regressing, in fact — toward their most crudely authoritarian incarnations. Their declension recalls the totalitarian communist and fascist ...

The most defining characteristic of today’s (and history’s) political left is a socialist worldview and agenda. The defining ...

These three main parties are sometimes described in easy categories of left (), right and center (), but the reality is far more complex.Here’s a primer on how to understand the top political ...