populism

Populists came to power peddling political fantasies—but the coronavirus has broken the fever.

The Brazilian president is proving that right-wing populism has ways of overcoming self-inflicted disasters.

Southeast Asia is turning a blind eye to the Rohingya, Israel-Jordan relations are deteriorating, and Kataib Hezbollah is losing influence in Iraq.

Aspiring authoritarians are sick of the liberal order and eager for new patrons in Russia and China.

New barriers are going up at breathtaking speed. The pandemic will accelerate not the demise of globalization but its transformation.

As the crisis worsens, even more extreme groups may prosper.

The continent’s borders are closed, as extreme nationalists always wanted—but they’re one of the pandemic's victims anyway.

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.