With his surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor, Mamdani's popularity shows us that identities that are ...

The backlash comes with its own popular history of identity politics’ origins. A recent version of this popular history is articulated by Yascha Mounk in his new book, The Identity Trap.In a ...

T hough the term “identity politics” is typically hurled against progressives, in the 21st century the right plays identity politics just as much as the left. Indeed, today’s conservatism ...

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.

This is why identity politics is so messy. Identity politics necessarily divides people. It fails to unify by design and the resulting agitation of people isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

If you think diversity and identity politics is dead under Trump’s assault on DEI, think again.. It’s very much alive. Yes, the landscape is bleak with the attacks and roll backs on DEI in ...

It’s time to stop letting identity politics define us and start defining what matters: a better future for our children, our families and our communities.

It's my favorite identity, in fact, whose new book, "The Identity Trap," explores the origins, consequences, and limitations of the contentious idea of identity politics.

For those who argue that we should simply abandon identity politics or claim it doesn’t work, there’s a real risk of overcorrecting. Without a thorough critique of what went wrong and a ...

It is why only minorities are thought to have an “identity” in identity politics. By that definition, Kamala Harris would have to bleat her horn about breaking glass ceilings.

Identity politics isn't confined to the left or the Labor Party. ... Dyrenfurth’s attempt to define Labor as the last best hope against identity politics is more interesting.

But identity politics also needs that tomorrow – today – in the sense that politicised identities need to inscribe that tomorrow into their self-definition in the present, in order to avoid ...