Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is the author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It.

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Kotryna Zukauskaite illustration for Foreign Policy

Germany’s Return of the Repressed

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September 5, 2018, 3:59 PM

This map shows the change in election results of 102 populist parties across 39 European countries between 2000 and 2017. (European Populism: Trends, Threads, and Future Prospects)

2017 Was the Year of False Promise in the Fight Against Populism

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Yascha Mounk, Martin Eiermann

December 29, 2017, 9:35 AM

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 10: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with President-elect Donald Trump (L) following a meeting in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to meet with members of the Republican leadership in Congress later today on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donald Trump Is the End of Global Politics as We Know It

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November 11, 2016, 5:00 AM

A Moroccan woman wearing a "burkini", a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, enters the sea at Oued Charrat beach, near the capital Rabat, on August 17, 2016. / AFP / FADEL SENNA (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)

The West Can Have Burkinis or Democracy, but Not Both

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August 27, 2016, 7:55 AM

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 17: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends debates after she addressed the Bundestag in a government statement ahead of tomorrow's European Union summit in Brussels on February 17, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The two biggest issues at the summit will be the EU's refugee policy and the future of Great Britain's EU membership. Merkel has pursued a very liberal policy towards admitting refugees and migrants into Germany that has also sparked divisions between EU member states, especially those in Eastern Europe, whose leaders have vehemently refused to admit refugees. Merkel has also taken a firm stance in trying to pursuade Britain to remain in the EU. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The End of German Exceptionalism

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July 27, 2016, 11:37 AM

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