Julia Klöckner was seen as a controversial choice for Bundestag president — a role that traditionally requires a calm and neutral presence. But she is an outspoken figure with a taste for populist ...

Zack Polanski is running a bid to lead the fiercely anti-Israel progressive party - and he's using populist icon Nigel Farage ...

The economic history of populism since 1900 makes clear that populist governments tend to be damaging. Our research dug beneath the anecdotes and found a common thread. To do so, we used an algorithm ...

Two international crises in the past four years have produced a populist backlash on the American right. The first was the coronavirus pandemic from 2020 to 2023, and the second is Russia’s war ...

Firstly, populism and democracy both confirm that individual people are, unequivocally, the most important aspect of any state, and that, within any nation, the populace must necessarily govern ...

And Trump has answered that populist moment with a destructive populism. The opportunity and the need for Democrats is to answer with a constructive populism, a patriotic populism.

Pay attention to an important shift in tone in Washington as Republicans evolve with President Donald Trump’s brand of populism. Some of the president’s goals dovetail with things Democrats ...

Populism is the problem. Pluralism is the solution. | Opinion The time has come to forge a new path, one that restores Iowa’s independent political spirit and offers a real alternative to the ...

Surely populism is defined by a highly emotive style of argument, in which photo ops and catchphrases–“America First,” “ take back control ”—substitute for patient reasoning. Isn’t populism ...

Populism has two main branches, right (Trump’s) and left. Both branches play to their extremist factions, which prefer to root out the moderates, often violently.

The phenomenon of right-wing populism is wide-ranging, appearing in far-right parties in Western Europe, in Orbán’s Hungary, in Putin’s Russia, Erdoğan’s Turkey, Bolsonaro’s Brazil, and ...

As big as Donald Trump’s victory was, his conservative populism’s political potential is bigger still. While the primary post-election focus has been on where Trump overperformed, there are ...