Can the center in politics ever be radical? One answer was provided in “The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics,” a book that Ted Halstead and I published in the fall of 2001. In an ...

To begin, what is the precise difference between the traditional political center and the radical center? In terms of substance: not a lot. We can, however, chart one core difference between the new ...

At a time when politics has become an almost ­minute-by-minute spectacle, political thinkers who try to discern a sweeping interpretive pattern in current events or to predict where those events may ...

The election of Emmauel Macron to the presidency of France means different things to different people. To Democrats in the United States and those who opposed Brexit, it means a victory against the ...

The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics , by Ted Halstead and Michael Lind. Doubleday, 272 pages, $24.95. This is a slim book with big ambitions. Ted Halstead and Michael Lind aim to cut ...

In the conventional wisdom, patriotism in American politics is thought to be aconservative impulse while the desire for strong, activist government isassociated with liberals. But think of all those ...

It’s interesting that our political debate assigns the word “radical” to the extremes of right and left, even here in moderate Minnesota, given that what’s really radical is at the center of our ...

Dean Phillips stands alone within the Democratic Party as resistance to Joe Biden. How did this happen and what does this say about the supposedly left flank of the Democrats that Phillips is the only ...