On the left side of politics, you tend to see ideas like liberty, equality (aka egalitarianism), progress, and internationalism. On the right side of politics, you tend to see ideas like authority, ...

A new study suggests that voters use political labels like “left” and “right” as mental shortcuts to guess a politician’s policy stances, even when the voters’ own political identities do not strictly ...

Regarding Peggy Noonan’s “How Not to Respond to Political Violence” (Declarations, May 2): All of Ms. Noonan’s examples of recent violence were of threats against public figures on the political right ...

Few issues elicit near-unanimous agreement from both the political left and right. The virtually universal opinion that political anger permeates our country is one such issue. However, that shared ...

The rise of Bolshevism and fascism during and after the First World War completely upended the traditional and fairly well-defined divide between Right and Left, a distinction that ultimately dates ...