When it comes to taking advantage of identity in politics, the two most effective American candidates this century have been Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Mr Obama had written the best campaign book ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

In late 2021, the media company Cut released a YouTube video in which a group of strangers interact in a “lineup” form, asking provocative questions based on their identities. One woman, the oldest in ...

The social dynamics of South Asia are shaped by a complex interplay of historical legacies, cultural pluralism and evolving power relations. Colonial and post-colonial experiences have left deep ...

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 ...

Given the self-destructive nature of such conflicts, why do they persist in the modern age? A possible answer is that collectivist impulses are in our genes. Fifty thousand years ago, our ancestors ...

When did you last test yourself for COVID-19? There was a time when plans were cancelled at the first sign of a sniffle. Four years later, the strange spell of COVID has lost its potency: The fever ...

Faster than a whiplash, identity politics returned to the forefront of the political culture wars the moment the Democrat Party anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee for president of ...

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 ...