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His appointment comes as the Trump administration is taking steps to reverse what conservatives consider a leftward shift in higher education.
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2025
Rhodes was working on a memoir of Obama’s Presidency and attempting to process Donald Trump’s first victory, while Lammy was confronting the nationalist instincts behind the Brexit vote and his own party’s leftward turn, under Jeremy Corbyn.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The Democrats’ broader leftward turn and embrace of identity and social justice politics will be a matter of debate.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
But in 1958, Belgium’s internal politics turned leftward and anticolonialist, and the government was forced to move Congo toward independence with only two short years to prepare.
—Herman J. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2025
Rhodes was working on a memoir of Obama’s Presidency and attempting to process Donald Trump’s first victory, while Lammy was confronting the nationalist instincts behind the Brexit vote and his own party’s leftward turn, under Jeremy Corbyn.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The Democrats’ broader leftward turn and embrace of identity and social justice politics will be a matter of debate.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
But in 1958, Belgium’s internal politics turned leftward and anticolonialist, and the government was forced to move Congo toward independence with only two short years to prepare.
—Herman J. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014
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“Leftward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leftward. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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leftward
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left·ward
ˈlef-twərd 
: toward or on the left
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