Immigration, race and religion are three issues that are often central to many populists’ politics. There are also economic factors such as a poor economy, international trade, industrial robots and ...

The rise of political populism in recent years has been explained by many as an irrational backlash against globalization. People who voted for US President Donald Trump or for Britain to leave the ...

In the past, left-wing populists, and populist left-wing movements, have scored political successes. Why do their counterparts today have so much difficulty getting anything going? The problem stems ...

During a September rally in Alabama for Roy Moore, the controversial Republican senate candidate, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon declared, “This populist, nationalist, ...

American politics resembles a three-way scrum. An institutional center, dominated by a guardian class of elites, who manage pretty much everything in modern society, faces persistent assaults from the ...

It is more urgent now than ever for defenders of liberal democracy to understand the drivers behind the populist resurgence in Europe and to find new ways to fight back. Authoritarian populism is not ...

Translated excerpts of the panel Unmasking Populism marking the 25 th anniversary of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal Moderator Sewa Bhattarai:There are many terms in Nepali for ‘populism ...

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Last Wednesday, former vice president and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence delivered a speech putting a choice before the Right: conservatism or populism? “I ask my fellow ...

For months, a burgeoning grassroots movement has staged flash mobs across Italy to express opposition to the country’s populist firebrand, Matteo Salvini. Its ability to pack city squares with tens of ...