Senate leader John Burton is the type who will buy blankets and drive around San Francisco handing them out to the homeless. Or he’ll hit up a special interest, not just for money to fuel some ...

The term “bleeding heart liberal” sounds musty and outdated, a relic of a time when slogans like “Save the whales” were code for “Worry about everything” and the words “drone strike ...

In Gruppo’s book, that makes me a bleeding-heart liberal, which is the same as being a fifth columnist — in the subversive sense. [email protected] 610-820-6176.

(The Nation) My friend George McGovern has turned 90, confirming the status as an American elder that he has enjoyed unofficially across the quarter-century since he finished his last campaign ...

I am an 88-year-old white Jewish-American woman, proud to be a bleeding heart liberal rather than a cold-hearted complainer who remembers where we all came from.

Our use of the term “liberal” needs a reevaluation By Christopher M. Lehman As we enter the final weeks of the 2010 election season, we find ourselves awash in political rhetoric.

Antonin Scalia, Bleeding-Heart Liberal A Fourth Amendment case shows once again that the justice does not live up to his authoritarian reputation. Jacob Sullum | 6.5.2013 7:00 AM ...

More than half of Democrats now identify as liberal, suggesting that the long-vilified “L-word” may be losing its potency as political kryptonite. A generation of Democratic presidential ...

Until May 14, I considered myself to be a bleeding-heart liberal. During my senior year at Friends Seminary High School in New York City, I was the president of a club called HELP (Helping Everyone… ...

When an impoverished youngster from the ghetto robs $50 from a convenience store, conservatives say, "Lock him up and throw away the key." But when the Konold siblings from Tucson ...