The ‘alternative-right’ has used social media to become a hugely influential movement in global politics. Where is the left’s version?
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Most Americans care about the environment, but they didn’t vote that way this year. Two political scientists urge the movement to build better connections with blue-collar workers and immigrants.
In 1981, many criticized Ronald Reagan’s nominee to head human rights initiatives in the State Department. Here is how activists mobilized to ensure the nomination was rejected.
Trump understood that the world is changing.
There has never been a time when the disconnect between political elites and the public interest was greater than it is today.
Clinton was fighting a deep-rooted misogynist sentiment which goes back decades.
The strange and enlightening tale of a South American dictator who tried to prevent white people from marrying other white people.
In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
Trump wouldn’t be the first occupant of the Oval Office to try to bend companies to his will to achieve an objective, be it economic or merely political. JFK tried it with U.S. Steel in 1962.
Donald Trump employed a ‘choreography of shame’ that diminished everybody – except white working-class men.
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
Labor’s decline has steadily eroded the prospects of working-class Americans, fueling the backlash that propelled Trump. His election, however, will likely deliver unions a knockout punch, hurting his supporters most.
Michelle Obama placed motherhood at the center of her role as first lady – a decision not all women applauded.
Nakedness has long been employed as a gesture of defiance, highlighting the plight of the oppressed.
If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
The better-to-do and the established of civil and political society have become complacent and deaf to ‘those at the bottom’. The working class has gone over to the right-wing populists.
Donald Trump’s election will affect Australia profoundly – including in the comfort it gives to those who oppose progressive policies in the name of fighting ‘political correctness’.
A sinister Hillary Clinton dominated conservative media, but also appeared in mainstream journalism. Why?
While research has long suggested that we like others who are like us, a new study offers insight into how we choose to support those who share our views of ‘moral purity.’ It may explain how we voted.
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