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identity politics
September 6, 2024
Magazine
Stephen Kearse
Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror
In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.
October 26, 2023
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Yascha Mounk’s Woke Straw Man
His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.
December 19, 2022
Tori Otten
George Santos Responds to Report of His Made-Up Résumé: I’m a Gay Latino
The New York representative-elect responded to a report about the holes in his résumé with the worst version of identity politics (and a made-up quote from Winston Churchill).
January 6, 2021
Amir-Hussein Radjy
A Novelist’s
Reckoning With Identity Politics
Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.
July 29, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
Between Thomas Chatterton Williams and Me
On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir
October 1, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Identity Is the Mystery in Tana French’s New Crime Novel
'The Witch Elm' uses traditional mystery devices to construct a gripping political narrative.
August 17, 2018
Mark I. Pinsky
Can Washington’s Least Favorite Former Congressman Stage a Comeback?
What Alan Grayson's bid to reclaim his old House seat says about the Democrats in 2018
June 20, 2018
Elmira Bayrasli
The Coalition to Stop Erdogan
In an election that will give its winner unprecedented powers, Turkey's formerly weak opposition has banded together, using the authoritarian president's own tools against him.
October 9, 2017
Magazine
Lee Drutman
It’s the Culture, Stupid
Identity politics isn’t the problem for Democrats. It’s the solution.
September 14, 2017
Magazine
John B. Judis
Redoing the Electoral Math
I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.
September 11, 2017
Mychal Denzel Smith
What Liberals Get Wrong About Identity Politics
Identity politics has its roots in an expansive, radical agenda. But you wouldn’t know that from its liberal critics.
October 24, 2005
Andrew Sullivan
The End of Gay Culture
Assimilation and its meaning.
August 28, 1989
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Andrew Sullivan
Here Comes The Groom
A (conservative) case for gay marriage
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