Eric Alterman | Posted 04.30.2012
Classical liberalism is synonymous with a faith in reason, which had arisen out of the Enlightenment as a reaction to claims of divine rule by the clergy and royalty of the late Middle Ages.
Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 04.10.2012
Author Jonathan Haidt enjoins liberals to make a sincere attempt to listen to conservatives and appreciate sincerely the values they hold dear, and even more, to see that that they are generally necessary for any society to hang together.
Mitch Rofsky | Posted 04.03.2012
Obama's health care program, with its private doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, isn't close to socialism, of course. But is it close enough to liberalism?
Robin Koerner | Posted 05.06.2012
American liberalism is dead. Long live American liberalism -- the proper kind.
Gary Dorrien | Posted 05.04.2012
Since the debt ceiling debacle of July 2011, Obama has gotten clearer that he cannot have a successful presidency if he does not push harder for equality and the common good.
Larry Doyle | Posted 05.02.2012
Once upon a time, the lessons propagated by Dr. Seuss, then called conservation, anti-totalitarianism, equality, spirituality and trying new foods, were universal virtues we all wanted to teach our children. But now the right has exposed them as socialist scams.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.23.2012
The majority of election cycles between 1964 and 2010 resulted in House incumbent reelection rates of at least 90 percent. Those are Kim Jung Il and Robert Mugabe numbers that legitimately call into question the fundamental tenet of American democracy.
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.05.2012
Ron Paul's progressive supporters might not grasp that Paul's libertarianism, while informing some of his seemingly progressive views on foreign policy and the like, carries with it a significant load of horrendous and unacceptable baggage.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 02.19.2012
As Christmas approaches, the minds of many of us turn to the founder of Christianity, whose birthday we celebrate. Yet 2011 years after his birth, the real Jesus remains oddly elusive.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 02.11.2012
There's a very narrow sweet spot of disciplined radicalism that neither sells out nor indulges economic solutions that are non-starters. Staying in this sweet spot takes a lot of self-discipline, and since the 1960s, this has not exactly been a leftist virtue.
Vaios Papanagnou | Posted 01.08.2012
The epoch that started in 2008 is defined by a single worry. Equally defining is the visible form that this angst takes. Millions of people in the Wes...
The New Republic | John B. Judis and Jonathan Cohn | Posted 12.13.2011
The Occupy Wall Street movements may not survive the onset of cold weather and rain. But, along with Elizabeth Warren's fledgling Senate campaign in M...
Robin Koerner | Posted 11.29.2011
Ron Paul's Constitutional America is the very opposite of the corporatist dystopia that Jon Stewart fears: it is rather more like the world that Jon would like to see were the government to be doing its job.
Pamela Haag | Posted 11.18.2011
Somehow the feminist rallying cry of the 1970s, "I am Woman, Hear Me Roar" has slipped into the misperception, "I am Woman, Hear Me Whimper."
Carlo Strenger | Posted 11.01.2011
Israeli society and its polity have moved towards increasing fragmentation. As opposed to the picture Israel's right wing tries to paint, it goes way beyond the tensions between Jews and Arabs.
Stephen J. Gertz | Posted 10.21.2011
Q1: What book, born of the political upheavals in mid-nineteenth century Europe, spearheaded radical Leftist Anarchism in the United States...
Feisal G. Mohamed | Posted 10.18.2011
ave wounds of deadly hate pierced humanity -- and humanities scholars -- so deep that we are no longer capable of blind hopes?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.30.2011
House Democrats and Nancy Pelosi--You are all that stands between the American people and unconditional surrender to the darkest forces in American society and the mass suicide of the liberal Democratic project.
Chloe Spencer | Posted 09.07.2011
The political spectrum is the range of political attitudes of the public, going gradually from extreme to moderate to extreme: radical, liberal, moder...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- In pitching his Senate bid before a St. Louis County audience, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) glossed over the controversy that has plagued him ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.28.2011
Jaweed Kaleem contributed to this report. WASHINGTON -- Religious leaders in Missouri are calling on Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) to apologize for claimi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) is drawing fire for claiming a "hatred of God" informs liberal beliefs. The comments, first reported by liber...
Ian Squires | Posted 06.25.2011
Knowledge has been called the enemy of religion. You can and should add the GOP to the list of those victimized by education and comprehension.
Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
Somewhere between the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam protest, liberalism lost its voice. And by tangible indicators it has yet to regain its voice -- at least not in any comprehensible way.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.01.2012