populism

While the world is shut down, history hasn’t stopped. Authoritarians are seizing the opportunity.

The populist Five Star Movement has become China’s chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence.

As protests against a new citizenship law sweep the country, signs that the authorities are condoning and even instigating violence have India’s Muslims alarmed.

The West is obsessing about how its democracies are under attack—except when it comes to all the self-inflicted damage.

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

The chancellor’s pathological centrism has helped make her party morally blind.

By depicting the far-right League leader as a villain, a grassroots movement calling for civility in politics could help hand the leftist stronghold of Emilia-Romagna to the right.

World leaders at venues like Davos need to start taking the public’s declining faith in institutions seriously—or face more upheaval to come.

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.