A new book traces the history of an idea—and shows what American liberals have lost.

President Trump and his critics are falling into camps very reminiscent of a classic philosophical debate of the 1970s: two different conceptions of moral duty.

Gary Hart's quest for a more participatory democracy

Individual freedom and the public square

Why big business is suddenly into liberal politics

How a vital term in U.S. political life lost its significance—and could regain it today

Viktor Orban's corrupt authoritarian style seems to be spreading in Europe, with serious security risks.

Allegations that the former French president accepted millions from Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi are uncomfortably relevant in the Trump era.

The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure

Chris Matthews's new biography of Bobby Kennedy revisits the promise of an inclusive populism.

Liberals and socialists share a common inheritance. So why can’t they find a way to work together to defeat Trump?

Centrists are falsely equating Trump with Nixon, and Sanders with McGovern, because they're scared of what a leftist party means for them.

How to tell the difference between liberalism and something else.

In “The True Life,” Alain Badiou addresses a new generation facing the fall of liberalism, the rise of fascism, and the end of gender.

Conservative and liberal values alike are threatened without the safeguards the left demands.

Anti-Trumpers are trying to argue that Obama laid the foundation for authoritarianism.

There are far more conservatives being driven around in limos these days than liberals.

The pitched battle of religious legitimacy.