This video explains the basic differences between left-wing and right-wing politics, including their views on economy, ...

Recently, prominent liberal political commentator Matt Yglesias wrote an article arguing that the key differences are that the right supports religion and hierarchy, while the left is secularist ...

Either way, when people use right or left in a political context, most tend to know what, and who, they are talking about. Democrats lean to the left, Republicans range toward the right.

Now, in economics as in politics, it is no longer left versus right; it is moderates versus populists. The question isn’t so ...

For too long, people on the right have denied their own identity and divisive identity politics, claiming that these existed only on the left. However, particularly when it comes to religion, ...

Opinion: The conservatives are furious over the authoritarianism imposed by an authoritarian left. And the left is furious ...

Doing so causes many on the left to dismiss what is, to my mind, the best explanation of the far right’s rise — one that focuses on a change to the ideological structure of global politics.

In 2016, American politics was turned upside down by the Obama-Trump voter, but in 2024 we have an even stranger phenomenon: ... But left-right isn’t the only relevant taxonomy in politics.

Jayme Franklin, 27, left, the chief executive of The Conservateur, with Alexandra Bryson, the director of development and operations. “Hotness is conservative coded,” Ms. Franklin said.

In any ordinary sense, the political right and left should be easy to differentiate in India. But as we move from the clarity of the 1940s to the ambiguity of the 2020s, ...