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Byline: Ishaan Tharoor DAVOS, Switzerland - It's a quirk of the calendar that the U.S. presidential inauguration takes place the same day as the start of the World Economic Forum [...]

If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage. After Donald J. Trump won the [...]

Byline: Andrew Preston Andrew Preston is a professor of American history at the University of Cambridge. Donald Trump is guilty of a lot of political hyperbole but he was absolutely [...]

There are signs that society is moving away from the progressive left's often strict expectations about how to discuss culture and politics. The last time Kamala Harris ran for president, [...]

Some of the best advice Democrats have received recently came from Bill Clinton in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. First, he warned against hubris: ''We've seen more than [...]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to suspend his presidential campaign and endorse former President Donald J. Trump was -- depending on where on the political spectrum the coverage came from [...]

Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City Council to request a Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation. After taking [...]

Bracing for yet another election against Donald Trump, America's liberals are feeling the fatigue. ''We're kind of, like, crises-ed out,'' one Democrat said. In 2017 they donned pink hats to [...]

For decades, Republicans have had a far more robust network of conservative policy groups to push their legislative agenda. Now the States Project is aiming to fill that void on [...]

A number of companies -- from clothing to pet care -- are trying to appeal to customers who think corporate America is pushing a liberal agenda. Jonathan Isaac is a [...]

There are a lot of us in the Northeastern media who properly spend a lot of time slamming the Republican Party for what a mess it's become. I have only [...]

One well-established finding of social science research is that conservatives report being happier than liberals. Over the years, researchers have come up with a bunch of theories to explain this [...]

A pattern is emerging for liberal dissenters on the Supreme Court. Having lost a case, the justices -- Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who were joined this term by Ketanji [...]

Trevor Noah recently surprised fans (and, according to some accounts, also Comedy Central management) when he announced plans to leave ''The Daily Show.'' His departure is one of many notable [...]

Byline: ROBYN URBACK; Staff What would Canada's NDP look like if it ceased to be its own distinct party, and instead operated as a phalange of the governing Liberals? Would [...]

The results of the Democratic congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday give us a hint of just how far the working-class liberalism once associated with city politics has [...]

When liberals lose in the Supreme Court -- as they increasingly have over the past half-century -- they usually say that the justices got the Constitution wrong. But struggling over [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff As we await the fireworks south of the border this Fourth of July weekend, let's show some appreciation for Americans, and for the extraordinary progress they've [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff In 1789, the French legislature devised a novel seating plan. Those who favoured tradition, established authority and religion sat to the right of the head of [...]

FUSAGASUGÁ, Colombia -- The man onstage surrounded by a screaming, sweating, fawning crowd seemed like an odd choice for a youth icon. Gustavo Petro is gray-haired, 62, and, in his [...]

Byline: Greg Jaffe Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master's thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing 'Hitlerian [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins and Erin Cox ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Ahead of a competitive election this fall, Maryland lawmakers notched a series of marquee, liberal victories in the General Assembly session [...]

If the past 10 years of Western history have featured an extended wrestling match between populism and liberalism, Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has inspired many liberals to hopefully declare [...]

The multinational response shows that liberalism has some life left. But the challenges posed by waning U.S. power and rising authoritarianism remain formidable. The liberal world order has been on [...]

Byline: Teo Armus RICHMOND, Va. - In recent years, the state legislators who came here from Northern Virginia managed to go back home with plenty to brag about: Lots of [...]

Byline: Seth Masket Democrats had a bad night on Tuesday. In the aftermath of the GOP win in Virginia's governor's race, centrists blamed progressives for pushing the Democratic Party too [...]

HOUSTON -- ''Should we be getting out of here?'' This is the question my husband, a Virginia native, has asked with growing frequency as he scans the daily headlines at [...]

Byline: Perry Bacon Jr. A year after President Joe Biden defeated several candidates to his left in the Democratic presidential primary, something similar happened in the mayor's race in New [...]

Byline: Aaron S. Lecklider The annual raising of rainbow flags outside America's strip malls and the bounty of LGBTQ-friendly swag being hawked inside them can only mean one thing: Pride [...]

Byline: Dan Balz WASHINGTON - At home and abroad, President Joe Biden is confronting what it means to lead a changing Democratic Party. The center of gravity in the party [...]

The new division in politics isn't between liberals and conservatives. It's between liberals and illiberals. Last month, Gallup released the results of a survey showing that public support for a [...]

From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. A [...]

Absolution is off the table. And liberal ideals themselves are up for renegotiation. Like many readers of The Times, I was riveted by Michael Powell's account last week of a [...]

If you want to know what worries conservatives, look at California. Last Wednesday, Nick Kristof addressed his column to his conservative hometown friends in Yamhill, Ore., urging them to hold [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman For Print Use Only. During the 2020 campaign, Republicans said that despite Joe Biden's reputation as a moderate, in fact his presidency would be ideologically radical, turning [...]

A huge coalition of activist groups had been working together since the spring to make sure that Joe Biden won and that the ''election stayed won'' amid Donald Trump's subterfuge. [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS, Staff Lead Wednesday will be remembered as the day the United States became a liberal and Democratic country again. And, as the Republican Party self-immolated in a [...]

Byline: Joe Scarborough For Print Use Only. One of my first memories as a child was riding to vacation bible school in the back seat of my grandmother's Dodge Dart [...]

Byline: Sean Sullivan and Rachael Bade Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush were two of the breakout liberal stars of this year's election, toppling powerful House Democrats on the way to [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor When it became clear that President Donald Trump had lost the election, another Donald started celebrating. 'Trump's defeat can be the beginning of the end of the [...]

Democrats may need to rethink their strategy as the class complexities and competing desires of Latino and Asian-American demographic groups become clear. The proposition seemed tailor-made for one of the [...]

It's about upholding your principles at the expense of your politics. The other day I spotted a sticker that read, ''Settle for Biden, 2020.'' It spoke for me. To be [...]