nationalism

After decades of militant radicalism, Sinn Fein won last week’s elections by moving toward the mainstream.

“Jai Shri Ram” was meant to be a celebration of a Hindu deity. But the phrase is turning into hate speech—and a dog whistle for attacks on Muslims.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa’s largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country’s politics—but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won’t go quietly.

Mired in the unpopular Brexit process, the Tories will have to convince voters that the union is worth it to keep hotly contested seats.

And the United States should be worried.

Oromo nationalism helped bring Abiy Ahmed to power, but it could also be his undoing. To hold the country together, the Nobel-winning prime minister needs to convince various ethnic groups that he and his new party represent all Ethiopians.

Hong Kong’s unique identity threatens Xi Jinping’s rhetoric of greatness.

Ethiopia’s prime minister oversaw the chaotic release of thousands of prisoners, including many ethnonationalist militants. His amnesty may now be coming back to haunt him.

There are deep reasons that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics.

The United States caused many of the planet’s problems and can still unmake them—but only if its politicians face up to the challenge.

Chinese students marched into Tiananmen Square 100 years ago in a movement that is still shaping attitudes in the country today.

The president’s coalition partners aren’t pulling him to the right. They’re doing his bidding.

The real winner of Turkey’s local elections is the ultranationalist MHP party.

Ukraine’s president is making a desperate gambit to win re-election—and to remain politically relevant if he loses.

Thierry Baudet once called politicians brain-dead. Now his upstart white nationalist movement has eclipsed Geert Wilders and won more Senate seats than the prime minister’s party.

If you want to stop terrorists like New Zealand’s mosque shooter, the first step is to try to understand what they’re saying.

The attack in New Zealand was inspired in part by the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but the real threat is lone wolves lurking in the far corners of the Internet.

The gunman who massacred Muslims was inspired by ideas that have circulated for decades on the French far-right.

Bosnia has a thriving media sector, but those who refuse to become mouthpieces for the government increasingly find themselves in exile or under police protection.