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  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Tony Barber
    Europe’s far right is often its own worst enemy

    Anti-establishment populists in the Netherlands and Estonia are on the back foot

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    The American republic’s near-death experience

    Donald Trump was just a symptom and the US is still in danger from those who peddle lies in place of truth

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Robert Shrimsley
    America’s warning for British democracy

    A cavalier approach to truth and a readiness to break political norms have fomented a similar rot

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    Europe is not immune from America’s political madness

    Conspiracy theories and political extremism are flourishing across the continent

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    News in-depthAmericas politics & policy
    Populists sense opportunity as Latin Americans lose faith in leaders

    With elections due across region, political outsiders are capitalising on distrust of ruling class

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Martin Wolf
    The fading light of liberal democracy

    Pluto-populists’ strategy of using identity issues to convince voters to act against their economic interests is working

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A World Safe for Democracy by G John Ikenberry — free thinking

    This thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism looks at the political philosophy as a guide to future actions

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Martin Wolf
    Five forces that will define our post-Covid future

    Sustaining a dynamic world economy was always going to be hard, even before the era of populism and great-power conflict

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Hungary
    Hungary limits rights of gay couples and changes electoral rules

    Critics say Orban and his far-right Fidesz party have run roughshod over European values

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  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    News in-depthRomania
    Far-right party changes political landscape in Romania

    Nationalist alliance formed a year ago set to be fourth-largest group in parliament after election last week

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Philip Stephens
    Like the financial crisis, Covid is a gift to populists

    Trumpism may yet get a second wind if society’s left-behinds pay the price for the pandemic

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    The west must live up to its own principles on democracy

    Backsliding undercuts the cohesion of Nato at a time when conflicts around the world are heating up

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Janan Ganesh
    The real class war is within the rich

    An academic blames ‘elite overproduction’ for political turmoil in the west

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    News in-depthAustria
    What is behind Austria’s plan to outlaw ‘political Islam’?

    Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s response to Vienna shooting as much a cultural question as a security one, analysts say

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    The perils and pitfalls of building multiracial democracies

    Managing ethnic, religious and cultural tensions is a challenge for countries all over the world

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Izabella Kaminska
    Bitcoin finally finds a rationale in doomsday scenarios

    The digital ecosystem draws support from being the currency of last resort

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Corruption is rotting the periphery of Europe

    The continent’s problems extend to troubled democracies beyond Hungary and Poland

  • Sunday, 22 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Pension populism threatens Andean economies

    Politicians’ quick fixes amid the pandemic will prove costly in the long term

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Tony Barber
    Defiant women take on ageing autocrats and machine politicians

    Female leaders and activists spearhead change in central and eastern Europe

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Michael Peel
    Donald Trump’s attack on US democracy hurts everyone

    With autocracy on the rise globally, respecting the popular vote matters even more

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Europe’s Biden-deniers suggest Trump’s political legacy can live on

    Prominent rightwingers have held back from congratulating the US president-elect

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Global InsightMichael Stott
    Peru president’s ousting underlines resurgent Latin American populism

    Martín Vizcarra’s impeachment signals more trouble ahead for region’s pragmatists

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Populists worldwide have lost their leader

    Donald Trump’s loss will deflate many autocrats outside the US, but it will not defeat them

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Jan-Werner Müller
    Liberals misunderstand the seductive appeal of populism

    Even once Donald Trump is out of the White House, his movement seems set to remain a central force

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Christopher Caldwell
    The movement that backed Donald Trump is here to stay

    If business and government leaders remain heedless, populism will have its day

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