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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Howard University students listen to polling results during an election night event for Democratic ...

Identity politics have played a significant role in shaping the landscape of American politics in recent years. This Washington D.C. polling station was packed. The line wrapped around the room – some ...

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 ...

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 ...

“To be white in America,” Robert W. Terry wrote 50 years ago, “is not to have to think about it. Except for hardcore racial supremacists, the meaning of being white is having the choice of attending ...

California may soon elect its first Latino governor in modern history. Los Angeles voters nearly denied a second term to the city’s first female mayor. Not long ago, those developments would have ...

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 ...

Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as press secretary in the Biden administration, is doing a round of interviews to plug her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party ...

President Trump’s brief quarrel with former ally Elon Musk was an unfortunate distraction. Disagreements are inevitable between strong-willed leaders with unique visions of who they are and what they ...