liberal
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Dolores Huerta, the fiery and resolute activist who helped launch and guide the nation’s first enduring labor union for poor farmworkers and later became an inspiration to women and liberal true believers, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Later, during my brief stint in seminary — I dropped out to head to a liberal arts college after a semester — women sometimes joked about pursuing their “MRS. degrees.”
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
What is up for debate is its European inheritance: the judicial system, the liberal press, the officer class its founders built, and the old ties to the West.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Army Discharge Review Board had repeatedly denied my applications without considering legal guidance from the Secretary of Defense to give liberal consideration to veterans whose service-connected mental health conditions contributed to their misconduct.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Malcolm’s father was right: Lord Nugent had been lord chancellor, but that had been under a previous government, a more liberal body than the present one, and ruling at a more liberal time.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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Wendell Berry’s iconoclasm reminds both liberals and conservatives that neither camp has a monopoly on truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
But for liberals and conservatives alike, there were other aims, too, including a high school and maybe even college degree, and a stable job to follow it.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Five justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along with the three liberals — upheld the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
The Supreme Court agreed in a majority opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts that was joined by two other conservative justices and the three liberals on the top court.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
For many African American voters, the Populist approach was preferable to the paternalism of liberals.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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