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

Narendra Modi has been reelected. In part, that's because Indian leftists, like American leftists, have been trying to imitate right-wingers rather than countering them.

France’s gilets jaunes protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders.

Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it?

Warsaw tried to shut down the event. It didn't work.

A case study from Europe, with lessons for the United States.

To understand the Iván Duque Márquez victory this weekend, you need to understand the man behind him: former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

A new book, endorsed by the president, reveals the fictions his supporters tell themselves.

Why does Steven Pinker insist that human life is on the up?

How yesterday’s champions of economic nationalism became today’s servants of the global elite

Trump's budget proposal extinguishes any remaining hope that he might reshape the Republicans' economic agenda.

William Drozdiak's new book charts the tensions that have divided a continent.

The Alabama Senate race and the tax bill represent the death throes of what was billed as a new path for the Republican Party.

Can Monocle's globalist chic survive in an age of populism?

In an interview, political scientist Lee Drutman explains how economic issues took a backseat in the 2016 election.

Rather than highlighting class differences, the phrase beclouds them.

Why is a so-called populist trying to dismantle America's most effective consumer watchdog?

Revisiting Irving Kristol, the conservative thinker who predicted Trump’s rise.