progressives

Progressive Groups Gear Up for Anti-Scotus Campaign – HotAir

Yesterday Rolling Stone reported that a progressive coalition is gearing up to attack the Supreme Court. UNITED FOR DEMOCRACY, a coalition of progressive groups and labor unions, is gearing up to launch a $10 million persuasion and base activation campaign centered on “the MAGA Supreme Court.” The coalition will spend $1 million on ads in […]

Why Identity Politics Makes the Left Miserable – HotAir

I’m really fascinated by this question. Why is it that social surveys routinely show conservatives are more happy than progressives? Today Thomas Edsall has an opinion piece in the NY Times which looks at some of the research on this question. And what he finds is that there may in fact be a depressive aspect […]

Mick Jagger Takes on Governor Landry

The Rolling Stones are on tour in the United States. Lead man Mick Jagger is 80 years old now and still strutting across the stage. Unbelievable. The band performed last Thursday in New Orleans during Jazz Fest. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of music that brings in all types […]

Democrats Vow to Codify ‘Right’ to Trans Surgeries, Hormones

House Democrats released an agenda Thursday that includes a vow to codify a right to so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. The promise came within the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ agenda, which House Democrats first shared with NBC News. That agenda includes a slew of left-wing interests, including promises of a higher minimum wage […]

Google Fires 28 Employees After Pro-Hamas Sit-In – HotAir

“Nasty, tedious children,” as Beege called them yesterday, are now nasty, tedious, and unemployed children. More than two dozen Google employees that participated in sit-in at office in New York and California got fired late yesterday for their attempts to hijack executive strategy in relation to a contract with the Israeli government. This should send some […]

Authorities Halt Conservative Conference Over Ideological Fears

Brussels authorities shuttered the National Conservatism Conference on Tuesday, sending police to block entry to the conference and announcing that those inside would be permitted to leave but not to return. However, the action was not the result of any public disturbances or threats. It was a political action by left-progressive politicians who do not like the […]

The Left’s New Goal: Degrowth – HotAir

        The left has a new goal: degrowth!          We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.         They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”         This idea […]

The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable – HotAir

        Millions of Americans, depressed by the ideological divide in America, harbor a wish that something or someone can bridge this divide.         This wish is understandable. But it is fantasy. The divide is unbridgeable. One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will […]