Tag: Populism

This is an odd moment for the Trump administration and its MAGA supporters. I’m not talking about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which has led at least a few members of ...

In a new book published this month in the Netherlands, Bas Erlings, a former strategic advisor for the center-right liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), argues categorically against ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the collapse of the Dutch government, an early presidential election in South Korea, and Gaza’s deadly aid crisis. Triggering New Elections ...

On May 4, in the first round of Romania’s presidential elections, far-right candidate George Simion amassed a stunning, but not surprising, 41 percent of the vote, nearly twice as much ...

In February, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar instructed his ministry to open quiet talks with far-right parties in France, Spain, and Sweden that had until that time been officially boycotted ...

Politicians in France tend to write a lot of books. Essays are expected of any serious presidential aspirant. Memoirs are a must for any politician worth their salt. And in ...

In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I ...