In the case of the U.S. Supreme's Court decision in Citizens United, liberals dismissed the idea that corporations might be presumed to have a right to free speech such as to limit the influence of money in politics which violates basic liberties. According to the author, if liberals are ...
It wasstill getting coverage on Monday. And it won him the day. Sure, you can parse the realness of it all: it wasn’t. But are the low-information voters who will decide the election doing that? And how real can any high-security campaign stop be in an age in which one of ...
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually s...
More frightening than any particular beliefs or policies is the utter lack of any sense of a need to test those beliefs and policies against hard evidence. Mistakes can be corrected' by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision...
How far did the liberals lay the fondations of the welfare s How far did the Liberals lay the foundations of the welfare state? The welfare state was set up in 1945, after the second world by the Labour government. It ensured that people would be looked after from the cradle to the gr...
FiveThirtyEight Politics It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion Share on Facebook This is an archived site and is no longer being updated. New 538 articles can be found at www.abcnews.com/538.Apr. 16, 2021, at 6:02 AM It...
As the presidential election looms, America and its imagery have become increasingly partisan. That’s especially true online, where @USA on Instagram and @America on X post increasingly alt-right content. Meanwhile, the “patriot” accounts of Facebook are frequently shaming liberals, and the fl...
Fun fact: Cruz served as deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration. George Pataki Pataki has been the governor of New York for three terms, and has decided to run for the Republican candidacy for president. Although he seems to appeal to both liberals and conservat...
The methods by which neorealists and neoliberals study the world are analogous. Crucially, they agree thatthe acquisition of knowledge is based on the liberal notion of power and politics, which under-problematises the use of empirical material (Smith, 1997). ...
Liberals took majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in August 2023 thanks to Janet Protasiewicz's victory, flipping the court after 15 years of conservative control. The court has made several key rulings since, including a December decision overturning Republican-drawn maps of the state...