Referring to his recent social-issues trilogy, Mr. Dorfman said: "Mostly those pieces were about the times.
"As voters are increasingly not finding economic differences between the parties – they are increasingly not believing parties can make a difference to the household finances or to the country's finances in this recent election – that social issues will increasingly play a role in the next few Australian elections," Sheppard said.
Trump, despite tacking to the right on a number of matters in recent years, rarely emphasizes social issues.
But Western Democrats acknowledge that enduring success will depend on the nomination of candidates with credibility among moderate voters, whom Republicans have lost in some recent elections while emphasizing social issues and opposition to government spending on education and infrastructure.
With this move, along with other recent editorial shifts toward social issues, identity, and activism, Teen Vogue is giving its readers what they have been asking for alongside the beauty tips, celebrity interviews, and fashion news.
Mr. Perry has given several speeches in recent weeks that suggest that social issues would be a crucial part of any campaign.
While our Congress is certainly unsatisfactory in many ways, it's shown a lack of enthusiasm for having major fights over social issues in recent years, possibly because everybody wants to look jobs-jobs-jobs obsessive.
The primary contest, Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster, recently told the Wall Street Journal, is having a corrosive effect on the candidates' popularity.Much of the talk on the campaign trail in recent weeks has been about social issues.
In this cunningly plotted story which tackles the dark side of our society head-on, ethical and social issues highlighted by recent real-life murders are teased out.
So are the social issues spotlighted by recent debates over same-sex marriage and contraception, including the Obama administration's decision to require that women get free access to birth control coverage under the new health care law.
If you think about recent social conflicts – land disputes and environmental issues – the government tries to use old ways to deal with these: they try to deal with it in an isolated way, to buy off people's dissent.
