Liberal Currents

In the seven months after the 2024 election, 9% of transgender adults reported moving to a different state—against 5% of LGBTQ people overall, and

The Editors' Chat is a monthly, freewheeling discussion among the editors of Liberal Currents. Today's episode, publisher Adam Gurri, executive editor Samantha Hancox-Li, as well as Contributing Editors Alan Elrod and Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis discuss the ways politics can consume communities, the Liberalism in the 21st Century conference, The Reconstruction Papers,...

I worry America cannot survive this. “This” can mean many things. For today at least, I mean sports betting.

Now, I’m aware that gambling on sports isn’t new. As far back as we can see evidence of spectator sports, we can find evidence of g...

So much of our politics today is driven by gender, from Graham Platner's rise and fall to Pete Hegseth's testosterone testing to various anti-trans crusades. Samantha and guest Katherine Cross, contributing editor at Liberal Currents, discuss the historical antecedents of modern gender anxieties, how history moves in a corkscrew, and why the right wing is forever driven by a ...

The right-wing freak out over Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is old news by now. They hate its casting, mainly the presence of Black and trans actors. They hate what they see as its diminishment of Odysseus into a haunted, reflective hero. And they