Is This Liberalism’s Last Stand?

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics.

Is liberalism an endangered species?

By liberalism I mean the combination of carefully regulated free markets with individual and intellectual freedom — the liberalism that drove unparalleled growth and prosperity here and abroad.

Under threat from both its left and its right, has American liberalism — once an insurgency challenging corporate monopolists, segregationists, the........

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