Populism

In its suppression of engaged citizens, Georgia's hybrid authoritarianism mirrors the tried-and-tested illiberal tactics employed by Russia.

The "Trump Doctrine" was neither neoconservative nor isolationist; it rejected such an absurd false choice.

The winner of last week's Dutch election was Geert Wilders, one of Europe's most notorious immigrant-bashers.

Beyond his economic platform, West can win over conservatives with his ardent defense of free speech and advocacy against cancel culture.

The straightforward solution is to re-democratize and re-politicize that which should have never been privatized in the first instance.

Republican candidates should advance a vision for American life that protects normal people from a decadent elite that assaults them on all fronts—cultural, economic, and geopolitical.

Economic strife exacerbated by the war in Ukraine could present new trials and tribulations for world leaders as they seek closure to the conflict.

As the U.S. faces claims of becoming a "banana republic," history shows established Democracies have had no qualms with indicting their leaders in the past.

The 2010s were the decade of populism. From 2018-2020, the world's three largest democracies (India, the United States, and Brazil) were each governed by a populist leader, and of approximately 90 democracies around the world, as many as 20 in 2012 and 2013 were led by populists.

The GOP elite's scorn for its own voters has, at this point, been a long time in the making.

For all the attention that Rubio and company rightly received, too few of their Republican colleagues joined them to secure paid leave for rail workers.

The Republican Party is now a working-class party, whether or not its own elites accept that fact.

Was the Brazilian president's election defeat a sign that the right-wing populist movement is starting to wane?

Under the Biden administration the Monroe Doctrine appears to have been turned on its head.

Society's major institutions have been largely, if not entirely, coopted.

Cutting-edge tools like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, advanced robotics, nanotechnology, and more have potential to improve lives and help solve the world's biggest problems. But if governments cannot also harness them in ways that strengthen the democratic process, the global trend of populists with zero-sum ideologies being catapulted to office may soon become much worse.

Italians were required to see themselves as Europeans first, and to accept unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

A clear-eyed look at America's international "soft power" makes immediately apparent how un-American it is.

Our elites failed to build nations in Iraq and Afghanistan while, at the same time, their own nation is falling apart on their watch.

Partisans of the Right and Left need to recognize the distance between their favored narratives and the problems that keep working-class Americans up at night.

The Republican Party is emerging from its cocoon of populist rhetoric a changed animal—just not one that anyone needs or wants.

When the Brexit result came through five years ago, everything changed—and I believe it had a huge impact on America.

Since his November loss, no one worked harder to get rid of Donald Trump than Donald Trump. Right up until the end, he was his own worst enemy.

A common view is that these authority figures look after their own interests only. This feeling has been especially strong since the 2008 financial crisis.

Across all facets of American society, the Left increasingly plays the game by one set of rules, and the "deplorable" Right plays by a different set of rules.

Trump has often joked that he kept more promises than he made, but there is a sense of truth in this wisecrack.

Whether the GOP opposition is led in the upcoming years by President Trump or one of the party's next generation of conservative leaders like Senator Hawley, its future lies in a populist program.

R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, debates Charles C.W. Cooke, editor of National Review Online.

Times have changed. As is often the case in human affairs, yesterday's solutions give birth to today's problems.

The beauty of an unfolding political realignment in which so much is in flux is that there may well be more Venn diagram overlap than meets the eye.