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Progressives Aren’t Liberal
Remember when “liberal” was a dirty word? In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, who often prefaced it with a damning “tax and spend,” may have been the most effective of bashers. But the most blatant attack was in the early ’90s, after Newt Gingrich’s ...
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Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There
As the saying goes, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, then you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain. The idea, of course, is that liberalism is a game for the youth and that age brings security ...
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The Supreme Court Is Not as Politicized as You May Think
With the start of the Supreme Court’s new term, we will see and hear much debate lavished on blockbuster cases — the controversial opinions that play an outsize role in the public’s perception of the court and that tend to split the justices, and the ...
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How Biden’s Foreign Policy Could Isolate America
Last fall, eight months into the new world disorder created by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy produced a long report on trends in global public opinion before and after the ...
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After His Arraignment, Trump Lashes Out
More from our inbox: ‘A Great Day for Liberals’ in Wisconsin and ChicagoA Renewed Interest in Freudian PsychoanalysisThe charges represent the culmination of a nearly five-year investigation.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesTo the Editor ...
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Red State, Blue State. Tight State, Loose State.
Political biases are omnipresent, but what we don’t fully understand yet is how they come about in the first place. In 2014, Michele J. Gelfand, a professor of psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business formerly at the University of ...
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The Smartphone and the Sources of Teenager Despair
American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them, more likely to experience depression, more likely to feel beset by “persistent feelings of sadness or ...
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What Liberals Can Learn From Ron DeSantis
Is there anything liberals can do about Ron DeSantis other than quietly seethe, loudly condemn him every time he makes headlines and hope that his political flaws — his distaste for glad-handing, his less-than-inspiring public-speaking style, his ...
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How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling Government
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ In my columns and on this show over the past few years, I’ve argued that to achieve the goals liberals hold most dear, we need a liberalism that builds. A liberalism that builds everything from multifamily housing ...
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How Much Longer Can ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who!’ Last?
Over the past four decades, the percentage of white Democrats who identify themselves as liberal has more than doubled, growing at a much faster pace than Black or Hispanic Democrats. In 1984, according to American National Election Studies data, 29 ...