Tag: Populism

The Sept. 1 elections in the two eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia have hit Germany like a cyclone, delivering the strongest-ever turnout for an extreme right-wing party in ...

In the recent German state elections, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received the largest share of the vote in Thuringia and ran a close second in Saxony. The ...

Right-wingers and populists have devastated legacy left-wing parties in two state elections in Germany, even if a “software error” in one state was blamed for changing the initial official results, ...

Excerpts from a speech from Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), who has been named former President Donald Trump’s running mate, for the Republican National Convention (RNC) focus on populist themes that ...

Less than an hour after the European Parliament election results were announced on June 9, French President Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly called a snap election. That election begins today as France ...

Last week, a popular radio host for the France Culture station, the humorist Guillaume Erner, confessed that he had had enough of the “Jewish question.” “It seems to me there’s ...

Just three weeks ago, France was a strong voice for the trans-Atlantic alliance and European defense, personified by grandiose D-Day commemorations alongside U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

In its attempt to Trump-proof aid to Ukraine, NATO recently floated an idea for a 100 billion euro ($107 billion) multiyear aid package to be agreed on at the upcoming summit in ...

Emma Ashford: Hey, Matt, you’ll have to excuse me for a moment here. I was looking forward to writing this column outside, enjoying the lovely summer weather, and then the ...

The French Revolution may have been one of the world’s first experiments in mass democracy, but those governing France have long had a problem with the idea. The French Revolution ...