Populism

The likely next prime minister maintained ideological purity while her fellow right-wingers compromised. Now, she’s ready to reap the rewards.

With Mario Draghi on his way out, Europe braces for the most radical right-wing government in Italy’s republican history.

The Pentagon is scrambling to deter China while adjusting to war in Europe—but does its new approach amount to more than just rhetoric?

The left keeps losing because it has failed to promote equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes.

Hungary’s prime minister will likely win a fourth consecutive election with an original political formula.

A new book argues that economic unfairness is more important than unequal incomes—but only redistributive policies can restore social mobility.

The region’s left has won a series of elections—but U.S. interests aren’t under threat.

A new book argues that Boris Johnson’s government is already losing its grip. Here’s why that’s wishful thinking.

The Democratic Party cares more about fighting populists than ending inequality. Its new brand of Reaganomics will lead to yet another electoral defeat.

Pedro Castillo ran as an anti-establishment leftist. Here’s why he won’t govern like one.

This week’s border crisis with Morocco will cast a long shadow over Spanish politics.

A close reading of the philosophical career, and influence, of France’s most ridiculed public intellectual.

The anti-establishment bad boys of years past are changing their stripes—maybe.

Trying to rebound after painful losses, the British party appears to be courting conservative and white voters—and losing its core principles in the process.

Fears of another Trump make it even more urgent that allies work with Biden now.

Democracies have to learn how to manage some people’s innate fears of change.

The German philosopher was one of the 20th century’s most influential public intellectuals. But 21st-century politics has cut him adrift.

European parties were supposed to create a European democracy. Instead, they’ve given cover to bad actors.