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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

D onald Trump’s 2024 victory was about much more than a backlash to left-identity politics. Inflation, among other matters, loomed larger. Still, Trump gained significant ground with Latino ...

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.