populism

The fiercest devotees of the far-right AfD aren’t native Germans but migrants from Russia.

There are plenty of innovative policies to revive rural areas—and trade wars aren’t among them.

How public television became an outlet for the Law and Justice party—and what it means for democracy.

City-level opposition could be the key to defeating populism in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and beyond.

Maxime Bernier flopped in Canada because voters still believe everyone has a fair shot.

Canada’s nationalist People’s Party has run a familiar populist playbook — and ended up a joke.

How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.

The same impulse that brought Trump to power could save U.S. democracy.

The PiS government is rooting out, relocating, and demoting political critics in the name of judicial reform.

The Austrian chancellor could become a star in an unprecedented coalition with the Green party—but that's not the sort of history he's interested in making.

The party is likely to win the vote, but it may eventually lose the broader cultural fight.

PiS won by offering provincial voters social benefits that transformed their lives. If Poland’s opposition wants to defeat the illiberal ruling party, it will have to offer an alternative welfare state model.

The Spanish government just moved a step closer to disinterring the remains of Francisco Franco. But as the country heads for yet another election, a new book shows that voters have other priorities.

The far-right is associated with the disaffected masses—but has a growing intellectual class.

But in the United States, they show no signs of abatement.

Across the West, the main trigger of populism has been the growing inequality—and hostility—between urban and rural regions.

Italian Catholics are deeply divided between traditionalists and supporters of Pope Francis’s liberal vision. Matteo Salvini is seeking to give the Vatican’s detractors a new political home.

Eastern Germans increasingly claim to have freed themselves from communists, only to have been taken over by another dictatorship: western Germany.

Extremists will triumph in this weekend’s regional elections—and Angela Merkel’s party is starting to see their appeal.

The prime minister’s statement about proroguing the United Kingdom’s legislative assembly.