With his surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor, Mamdani's popularity shows us that identities that are ...

The backlash comes with its own popular history of identity politics’ origins. A recent version of this popular history is articulated by Yascha Mounk in his new book, The Identity Trap.In a ...

The pluses and minuses and continuing impact of identity politics. Tell me a person’s ethnic identity and I’ll tell you their stance on the war in Gaza. If nothing else, the conflict in the Middle ...

The 2024 presidential election has been framed as a rejection of “identity politics.” At best, that’s half right.

By identity politics, I mean a societal culture whereby the political, social, environmental, and economic dynamics are influenced and/ or determined by racism, tribalism, ...

This is why identity politics is so messy. Identity politics necessarily divides people. It fails to unify by design and the resulting agitation of people isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

We live in the USA and that should mean something. If there is anything I learned from MLK and his struggle for civil rights it was the lesson of striving to be a man, an individual.

T hough the term “identity politics” is typically hurled against progressives, in the 21st century the right plays identity politics just as much as the left. Indeed, today’s conservatism ...

Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American liberalism.

It’s time to stop letting identity politics define us and start defining what matters: a better future for our children, our families and our communities.