America is starting to realize that "liberal/conservative" labels exclude the left
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2VV9N)
On my first day at Michigan State University in 1992, a fellow student called me a "liberal" and I was shocked: as a Canadian who was often to the left of the social-democratic New Democratic Party, I identified "liberal" with the Liberal Party, a centre-right political party that had once imposed martial law in Canada. (more")