When did you last test yourself for COVID-19? There was a time when plans were cancelled at the first sign of a sniffle. Four years later, the strange spell of COVID has lost its potency: The fever ...

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. In this timely and incisive work, Mounk confronts the rising ...

“Identity politics” is among the most contentious terms in recent debates about art. And now, the most powerful people in the United States are blaming just about everything on “DEI” and “wokeness.” ...

When it comes to taking advantage of identity in politics, the two most effective American candidates this century have been Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Mr Obama had written the best campaign book ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told rally attendees not to let Republicans “trick” them into thinking they “can be separated” by race or into stoking “deep divisions along race, identity and ...

For nearly a decade, identity politics has dominated public discourse, shaping debates in boardrooms, classrooms, and legislative halls. It rose from real and necessary grievances: centuries of ...

GOP leaders have a tough time with Black people and respect. From the insistence that former President Barack Obama was not a native-born U.S. citizen to the Republican Party going on the record with ...

Character. I have thought about that word much lately, especially since Monday was the day we observed Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. It was also the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Had she won, Vice President Kamala Harris would have broken two barriers at once: becoming the first woman and the first Indian American to be elected president. And so, naturally, when the Democrat ...

Following Vice President Kamala Harris’s complete shellacking at the polls last Tuesday, many Democrats are wondering if their party needs to rethink its commitment to identity-based politics. It ...

This fall, I am teaching a seminar course on polarization. Despite my courses being subject to boycotts, my classes filled up in an ironic twist of fate. The class is intended to present a broad ...