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What 'left' and 'right' really mean Feb 24th 2012, 15:57 Perhaps my biggest frustration with the U.S. news media (and yes, I am a card-carrying member) is that we permit the two parties to decide what is "left" and what is "right." The way it works, roughly, is that anything Democrats support becomes "left," and everything Republicans support becomes "right." But that makes "left" and "right" descriptions of where the two parties stand at any given moment rather than descriptions of the philosophies, ideologies or ideas that animate, or should animate, political debates. Read full article >>

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