This chart shows the top 5 most often citied major issues for the U.S., by political orientation (in percent).

If you follow political issues, you probably often see references to the "left" and the "right." These terms are ubiquitous. But what do they really mean? Do they capture any systematic ...

Either way, when people use right or left in a political context, most tend to know what, and who, they are talking about. Democrats lean to the left, Republicans range toward the right.

VERLAN LEWIS: Yeah, so when we talk about the myth of left and right, we’re talking about the false idea that there is one issue in politics, and that there are two coherent enduring ...

The divide between left and right is one of the most fundamental markers in politics. But have you ever stopped to think about why we use those directional terms to describe ideological camps?

Since left and right are still the most salient political categories (notwithstanding the fantasies of some commentators that they’re obsolete concepts), it is of utmost importance to be clear ...

For most of the 20th century it was “the right” in favour of political censorship. In the US, as in Australia and throughout the world, the left-right dichotomy has become a divisive delusion ...