He used to tell them they had no one to blame but themselves, but he’s found more politically palatable targets.

The rail industry’s army of lobbyists descended on Capitol Hill to block safety regulations—and found plenty of Republicans willing to do their bidding.

Rather than litigate everyone’s perception of the economy, President Biden should pick some big fights with the crooks who are holding back the boom.

The American Principles Project has lost election after election but its influence in the GOP is still growing.

A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel Webster’s nineteenth-century civic nationalism.

The American press has overhyped Giorgia Meloni’s fascist ties—and underhyped what a wreck the country has become under a series of populist “saviors.”

If we want to stop the anger, we need to stop the scorn.

Populism is the villain of Jan-Werner Müller’s new book. But a revitalized democracy needs to engage the people.

For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.

I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.

Right-wing populists are declaring war on “woke” corporations, but in the end, these alleged foes all want the same thing: GOP rule.

The enduring struggle over who is deserving of political representation

Recent research on persuasion offers a manual for how to turn red states green.

Pundits and think tanks seem to love it, but it’s a meaningless phrase in the modern Republican Party.

The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.

The American right’s doomed quest to rid itself of Trumpism

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson rely on weaknesses in the system to enact promises which aren't popular.

How political pundits have abused the word into meaninglessness