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The Central European University will challenge a law just passed by the Hungarian parliament that could force the closure of the school founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off the populists, but his smaller coalition partner has been hammered.
EU leaders will breathe a sigh of relief after the centre-right saw off the populist threat.
The famous anti-immigrant crusader fizzled at the polls, but the Netherlands still has a legacy of intolerance to turn around.
Calls for civil resistance against the rise of right-wing populism have emerged. But political activism is more than taking to the streets.
President Trump has asserted that media coverage of terrorist attacks under-represents their actual extent. Analysis of 50 years of news coverage answers this question, and raises others.
First-round voting confirmed that populist president Rafael Correa’s AP movement is still Ecuador’s most powerful political force. But the right is gaining strength.
2017 could be the year of the far-right in Europe, and spell the end of the EU.
While populism is considered a threat to democracy, there are in fact lessons our leaders can learn from the experience of populism in other countries.
The far-right candidate has published a 144-point plan for her proposed presidency.
Bernardi’s defection from the Liberal Party this week is less important in itself than what it says about a wider trend towards a fracturing of Australian politics.
What do Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao and Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias have in common with Donald Trump?
2017 has started poorly for Malcolm Turnbull. And now he must navigate a hazardous period of populism.
A certain mentality has been on display in Western democracies of late – and we don’t really understand it.
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
As candidate, Trump promised protectionist trade policies and denigrated international agreements. Now, as president of the United States, how far can he go?
The fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to usher in ‘the end of history’, an eternal age of capitalist economics and liberal-democratic politics. It hasn’t turned out that way.
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
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