Here is one version of the left-right spectrum ... This is not a book that tries to compress politics into a one-dimensional spectrum. It charts a rich, multidimensional space.

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.

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?

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 ...