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Identity Politics

  1. encounter
    What’s Wrong With Identity Politics?Philosopher Olúfemi O. Táíwò’s new book reclaims the concept from elite power brokers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. democratic primaries
    Julián Castro Might Be a BelieverHis floundering campaign seems committed to advancing moral — but unpopular — issues. What’s the long game?
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  3. identity politics
    The GOP’s Cynical New Identity-Politics PlaySenate Republicans are looking to back bills that rebuke anti-Semitism — despite their own party’s complicity in anti-Semitic violence.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  4. just asking questions
    Wesley Yang on Asian-Americans and the Struggle for RecognitionThe author of The Souls of Yellow Folk says he “knew there was a risk that the book would be straw-manned by its critics. And it has been.”
    By Park MacDougald
  5. 2018 midterms
    Trump’s Closing Midterm Pitch Is White Identity PoliticsLet’s discard the illusion that Republicans are the enemies of identity politics and political correctness. They practice both–but for white males.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. books
    Can a Philosopher Help Calm the Identity-Politics Wars?An interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity.
    By Jesse Singal
  7. identity politics
    The Left’s Contempt for Jordan Peterson Is Perfectly RationalPeterson’s toxic form of identity politics enables centrist snowflakes to avoid engaging with facts and ideas that threaten their worldview.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. Ocasio-Cortez Proved That ‘Identity Politics’ Is an Asset for BerniecratsSocialists just put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress by exploiting the Democratic base’s hunger for more diverse representation.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. the body politic
    How Can Democrats Connect ‘Identity Politics’ to Economics?By talking about gender and race more, not less.
    By Rebecca Traister
  10. pop culture
    Pop Culture’s Great AwokeningWhat happens to culture in an era of identity politics?
    By Molly Fischer
  11. Racism May Have Gotten Us Into This Mess, But Identity Politics Can’t Get Us OutTa-Nehisi Coates tells us that Donald Trump’s racial appeal makes him America’s first white president. But how do we make him the last?
    By Briahna Joy Gray
  12. love and war
    Solange Discusses Intersectional Feminism in Bust Magazine“I want women’s rights to be equally honored, and uplifted, and heard.”
    By Theresa Avila
  13. Trans Teens on What ‘Bathroom Anxiety’ Really Feels Like“What if something bad happens and nobody knows, and they just leave me in there?”
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  14. Can Democrats Move Left — and to the Suburbs?Liberal activists want economic populism. But Democrats’ path to a House majority cuts through affluent suburbs that shunned Bernie Sanders.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. lgbtq rights
    8-Year-Old Trans Boy Perfectly Sums Up Why He Wants to Be a Boy ScoutAfter he was asked to leave his Cub Scout pack.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  16. last night on late night
    Samantha Bee Talks Identity Politics Post-Trump “Identity politics” sure seems like a negative rebranding of “civil rights.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  17. the body politic
    Identity Issues Don’t Distract From Economic Issues — They Are Economic IssuesWhat Trumpism could do to our human infrastructure.
    By Rebecca Traister
  18. politics
    A Shocking Number of Transgender Americans Are Afraid to Use Public RestroomsAccording to a groundbreaking new survey.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  19. What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About Identity PoliticsIdentity-based critiques of economic reductionism have become tools for obscuring the divergent interests of rich and poor Democrats.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. pod living
    See You in 4 Years, When I Awake From My Medically-Induced ComaThis should make things easier for the white men of the left.
    By Liz Meriwether
  21. identity politics
    Watch Secret Deodorant’s Groundbreaking Ad Featuring a Transgender Woman“There’s no wrong way to be a woman.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  22. art
    The Reviled Identity Politics Show That Forever Changed ArtHow identity politics became for this era what Impressionism and Cubism were for theirs.
    By Jerry Saltz and Rachel Corbett
  23. sex on campus
    The Agender, Aromantic, Asexual Queer MovementWhat happens when identity politics goes identity-free?
    By Tim Murphy
  24. identity politics
    It’s About to Get Easier to Update the Sex on Your Birth CertificateA move toward more rights for transgender New Yorkers.
    By Katie Zavadski
  25. identity politics
    Nikki Haley Renamed Her HusbandJust ‘cause she felt like it.
    By Noreen Malone