Understanding Rizzo’s career and political popularity can help explain the appeal of President Trump’s identity-based populism today.
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The self-proclaimed populist has won a leadership contest a year after the party’s best election result ever. These are the challenges that lie ahead.
When the Cold War came to an end, neoliberals appealed to nature in order to justify inequality.
Argentina is currently living through a radical experiment in state destruction.
President Yoweri Museveni’s effort to stop evictions didn’t address underlying problems, but it enhanced his political legitimacy.
Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.
Some suggest populism has come out of nowhere, and is causing a major and unexpected shock to the system. But that’s simply not the case.
Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a free-market economy.
Argentina’s libertarian president is going through a tough moment, but his politics is here to stay.
The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.
The U.S. administration’s designs to grab Canada, the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza are now in plain view.
Since 1990, trust in government has been declining in democratic countries across the world.
Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only casualties.
When common sense is promoted as a virtue, it’s not just to celebrate how regular people understand the world. It promotes a worldview that rejects empirical facts and paves the way for propaganda.
Mainstream parties must recognise what voters are asking for, otherwise they are playing into populist hands.
Attacks on scientific expertise have been increasing, especially in politics. Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is among the more prominent people who have done that.
Hateful language used to demonize particular groups of people had been used long before the era of Donald Trump, including by the Nazis.
Does Donald Trump’s second term herald “the end of corrupt elites” in Washington? Despite his populist campaign rhetoric, Trump is bringing an"anti-elite" elite into government.
The world’s richest man is now also one of the most politically powerful. Musk’s journey to mega MAGA funder sheds some light on what his motivations might be.
A handbag becoming a symbol of class strife aptly defines the mood of the online zeitgeist.
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