If your religion-focused theory of left and right has grave difficulty accounting for the leadership of the world's largest religious denomination, that seems like a significant problem for the ...

Politics. The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map. Jesse Walker | From the June 2023 issue ...

The Oxford English Dictionary’s first citation of “left” and “right” used in the political sense in English is in Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution in 1837, but the idea only ...

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 ...

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.

"The Catholic world view, and I think this was espoused by Pope Francis, beautifully, like all of our great popes, was not left or right, it was up. Connecting from us to God, from God down to us.

The most defining characteristic of today’s (and history’s) political left is a socialist worldview and agenda. The defining characteristic of today’s “far right” is opposition to socialism.

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 ...

Perhaps nothing contributes more to the rancor of political discourse than the indiscriminate use of political labels as partisan epithets. Labels such as “left-wing” and “right-wing ...

For years a consistent refrain in American politics has bewailed an increasingly polarized political atmosphere. As the Pew Research Center observes, for the first time in almost 25 years, “majorities ...