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Yes, David, There Is Such a Thing As American Religious Exceptionalism

The Grinch Didn't Steal Christmas, But Trump's Policies Will

The Grinch Didn't Steal Christmas, But Trump's Policies Will

The UnPopulist Staff’s 2024 Holiday Recommendations

Right-Wing Radicals Are Drowning Out South Korea’s Institutional Conservatives, Creating a Political Crisis

MAGA Evangelicals' Un-Christian Quest for Political Power: A Conversation with Russell Moore

Our Survey Finds that Kennedy’s Supporters Are More ‘Normal’ Than He Is and Even Than Trump and Harris Supporters

Trump’s Budget Director Pick Would Restructure Government to Aggressively Push a Christian Nationalist Agenda

State Constitutions Are Far Better at Constraining Executive Power and Defending Rights than the Federal One

The Limits of Pluralism in a Tolerant Society: A Conversation with Jacob T. Levy

Trump’s Tariffs Will Put America on the Road to War

Trump Will Drive His Dubious Appointments Through the Vacancies Act's Many Loopholes

Tariffs Are Trump's Tool to Consolidate His Hold on Power

Donald Trump's Rogue Cabinet: A Round Up

In Pete Hegseth’s Totalitarian Vision, Opponents of Christian Nationalism Are Commies and Political Enemies

Musk Has Defended His Right-Wing Bro in Brazil, Not Free Speech

The Challenge for Liberals Is to Convince Americans to Take Governing Institutions Seriously: A Post-Election Analysis with Walter Olson

Thanksgiving Is a Time to Re-Count the Blessings of Liberalism

Thanksgiving for America: the Land of Immigrants

This Thanksgiving, Thank America: The Land of Immigrants

Memoricide: Hindu Nationalism’s Project of Erasing Minority Contributions to India’s History

Are America's Reactionary and Democratic Spirits in a Global Duel? A Conversation with Zack Beauchamp

The Growing Red State Attack on Local Prosecutorial Independence

The Senate Can Thwart Trump's Power Grab to Install His Cabinet During a Recess

How to Stop President-Elect Trump’s Potentially Abusive Domestic Deployments of the Military

The Trump Administration Will Be the Government’s Evil Twin

The Election Refuted Right-Wing Hysteria About a Great Replacement

On Libertarianism, Populism, and Progressivism: A Conversation Between Yascha Mounk and Shikha Dalmia

Zooming In: The UnPopulist Staff Parses Trump's Victory

Trump’s Victory Shouldn’t Cause Panicked Liberals to Overcorrect

Tuesday's Moral Catastrophe

Trump Is George Wallace 2.0

Trump: George Wallace Redux

The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies

Trump Is Peddling Fake News About Rising Crime Rates in America

America’s Glorious Tradition of Voting

Elon Musk: The Redpillionaire Trump Propagandist

Joe Rogan: A Conspiracist for the Trump Era

Heritage Foundation's Far-Right Project 2025 Will Guide Trump's Second Term

Congress Should Curb the Illicit Use of Pardon Powers by a Rogue President

The Dictator Whom Trump Resembles That No One Is Talking About

JD Vance's Three Choices if Trump Loses

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Will Need a Militarized State

Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part I

Trump Is Not Preparing to Challenge the Election Results if He Loses but Mount Another Coup

Kamala Harris’ Base Will Stand by Her If She Leads Efforts to Restrain Executive Power, Our Survey Shows

Courts Might Not Stop Trump's Illicit Plans for Mass Deportations

Act Now to Prevent Trump From Weaponizing the FCC Against Political Opponents

What Kind of Electoral Reforms Would Stop America's Slide Toward Authoritarianism?

There Is No Liberalism Without a Healthy Democracy

Promoting School Choice the Wrong Way

Promoting School Choice the Wrong Way

Moses Can Lead Israelis and Palestinians Out of Their Bloody Conflict

Trump’s Schedule F Will Create a Civil Service that Serves His Whim Not the Rule of Law

Vance Is Pence, Only Worse

Israel Can’t Survive by a Go-It-Alone Strategy that Squanders International Goodwill

Tracking Populist Attitudes Among Americans Going Into the Presidential Election: A Conversation with Tom Shull

Trump Will Face Justice for Assaulting the Rule of Law Only if He Loses in November

Many Trump Supporters Will Question a Close Harris Victory—Making Another Jan. 6 a Distinct Possibility, Our Survey Finds

Tim Walz Isn’t a Radical, He’s a ‘Neighbor’

All Sides Are Violating International Law in the Escalating Middle East Conflict

The Making of the MAGA Hoax About Pet-Eating Haitians

The UnPopulist Turns Three!

The UnPopulist Celebrates its Third Birthday

Trump's Attack on Haitians Borrows From Neo-Nazis

Which Variety of Authoritarianism Is Trumpism?

Elon Musk: The Phony Free Speech Absolutist

Kamala Harris Might be Less Injurious to the American Economy than Trump

MAGA Wants to Evade Accountability for Trump's Campaign of Lies and Fear Mongering

El Salvador Is a Terrorized State Under Nayib Bukele

Free Speech Means Allowing Full-Throated Condemnations of Odious Views: A Conversation with Popehat

Trump’s Manifestly Bogus Narrative of American Decline

How We Can Stiffen the Spine of DOJ Prosecutors Who Donald Trump Would Need to Prosecute his Political Enemies

Climate Catastrophism Leads to Illiberalism but Doesn’t Solve the Problem

Platforms like Telegram Accused of Facilitating Child Sexual Abuse Can’t Invoke Free Speech Protections

MAGA's Ever-Shrinking Definition of Who Counts as a 'Real' American

Can Bangladesh Snatch Liberalism from the Jaws of Military or Islamist Rule?

Harris Is Offering Unity Without an Olive Branch to a Lawless Authoritarian

Trump's Lies Are More Injurious than Mere Propaganda

Beneath the Harmony, Tension Lurks Between the Statist and Market-Friendly Wings at the DNC

JD Vance's Weird Plan to Disenfranchise Childless Cat Ladies

Democrats Are Still Not Thinking Seriously About Preventing Another Jan. 6

Is There Anything New in the New-Right's Critiques of Liberalism?

Trump Poses a Threat to America’s Commitment to a Nonpoliticized Military

The Bogus Post-Liberal Indictment of Liberalism

Is the Far Right Channeling German Theorist Carl Schmitt's Divisive Script?

Liberalism Offers a Language of Resistance Against Authoritarianism Everywhere

Why Populism and Authoritarianism Go Hand in Hand

UK's Far Right Has Fomented a Race Riot by Peddling Fake News and Islamophobia

Why Is the Illiberal Right Rising in Germany? A Conversation with Tim Ganser

Kamala Harris Needs to Change the Narrative on Immigration

A Party Led by the Poster Child of Affirmative Action for the Privileged Shouldn’t Slam Kamala Harris as a DEI Candidate

Is Liberalism Prone to Self-Undermining Excesses?

Revitalizing Liberalism Requires Understanding That It Is a Natural Response to Diversity Everywhere

Chavismo Must Be Defeated in Venezuela Tomorrow to Pull the Country Out of Oppression and Poverty

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Won’t Make America Safe Again

Republicans' Bogus Claims that Democrats Acted Illicitly in Replacing Biden

France’s Far-Right National Rally Has Lost the Battle, Not the War

JD Vance Is Ready to Remake America in MAGA's Image

Liberalism Isn't a Western Concept

Time for All Liberals to Unite

Justice Roberts Subverted the Separation of Powers and Created a Dangerously Unaccountable President

The Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Right’s New Boogeywoman

Niall Ferguson: The Intellectual Underwriter of Trump's American Carnage Idea

The Roberts Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Has Lost Nearly Everyone Except for the Far Right

Rededicating Ourselves to the Principles of the Ongoing American Revolution

The Criminal Justice System Is Being Positively Kind to Donald Trump and MAGA Insurrectionists

Ireland's Citizens' Assembly May Just Be the Solution to the West's Culture Wars

Is Ireland's Citizens' Assembly the Solution to the West's Culture Wars?

Elon Musk’s Statist Road to Free Speech

Will the First Female President of Mexico Finish Off its Democracy?

Is Trump a Fascist or Something Else Entirely?: A Conversation with Nicholas Grossman

The Biden Administration Is Facilitating a Rogue President’s Ability to Spy on Opponents

Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While

Why Do Our Ideologies Divide Us?: A Conversation with Political Scientist Jason Blakely

Trump’s Plan to Enslave the Fed Will Decimate the Economy

The European Parliament Elections Show that Right-Wing Populism Is Surging

David Boaz: A Tribute to His Life and Legacy

Liberalism for the 21st Century: A Conference by the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism

How Did Germany Let the Far-Right Genie Out of the Bottle?

America Can’t Do Without Immigrants

Liberalism Once Saved The World—It Can Do So Again

A MAGA Mutation Has Infected Britain‘s Tory Party

American Federalism Can Push Back Against Executive Overreach

Two of Europe's Right-Wing Leaders Experience Setbacks

Trump Killed Not Just the Libertarian Party But Maybe the Libertarian Movement Too

A Third Modi Term Will Test the United States of India

The Perils of Right-Wing Economic Populism: A Conversation with Economist Ryan Bourne

The Right's Reactionary Spirit Predates Trump

‘Total Ideologies’ Are Preventing Palestinians and Israelis From Making Peace

DeSantis Bans Fake Meat Based on Fake News

How Pakistan's Opposition Creatively Used AI to Counter a Rigged System

Why Do Authoritarians Hold Elections?

Why Do Authoritarians Hold Elections?

Ending the Conflict in Israel Will Require Dealing With the Sub-Rational Motives On Both Sides

Democratic Institutions Don't Defend Themselves, We Do: A Conversation with Ian Bassin

Sam Francis: The Dangerous Apostle of Right-Wing Populism

Stopping a Rogue Executive from Abusing the Massive Powers of the Presidency

Shutting Down Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Will Hurt the Cause of Learning

The British Right’s Paranoid Grandstanding About Muslims and Immigration Distracts from the U.K. Government’s Fecklessness

America's Winner-Take-All Electoral System Is Tearing the Country Apart

Bret Weinstein: Conspiracy Theorist in Academic Clothing

Yes, Virginia, There Is Structural Racism in America: A Conversation with Richard Rothstein

Americans May Be Turning Against Representative Democracy Along With Commitment to Democratic Values

Can India’s Liberal Democracy Recover After a Third Modi Term?

The False Economic Promise of Populism: A Conversation with Rachel Kleinfeld

What’s the Real Threat to Campus Free Speech?

The Right’s Bogus Claims about Noncitizen Voting Fraud

How Are Some of the Right-Wing Groups Powering MAGA Doing? An Update

Does Populism Mean the Death of an Adversarial Media? A Conversation with Matt Yglesias

Javier Milei: An Illiberal Libertarian?

The Faithless Are the More Reliable Liberals

The Right Can't Love America Because it Hates Liberalism

Have the Finns Cracked the Happiness Code?

Why Are the Finns So Damn "Happy"?

Biden vs. Trump Is the Rematch that America Wants

The Right's Infatuation With Fascist Strongmen Is Nothing New

A Healthy Social Media Might Need Bottom-Up Moderation: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Does a George Floyd Quackumentary Deserve to be Treated Like Valid Journalism?

How Putin Turned Himself Into Russia's New Czar

Prime Minister Modi Is Disarming the Opposition Ahead of India's National Elections

The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers

NATO: Foreign Entanglement or Effective Alliance? Berny Belvedere and Shikha Dalmia Debate

The Proposed Toxic Marriage Between RFK Jr. and the Libertarian Party Could Hurt Trump

Why Do We Need to Fight Populism?

A Tale of Two Grocery Store Visits: Tucker vs Boris

A Tale of Two Grocery Store Visits: Tucker vs Boris

Alabama’s New Law Won’t Truly Reverse its Supreme Court’s De Facto IVF Ban

For Justice Sam Alito, Freedom Is Censorship and Censorship Is Freedom

Is Journalism Doomed in the Age of AI? A Conversation with Julian Sanchez

Both in Life and Death Navalny Was a Stinging Rebuke To Putin's Totalitarianism

Musk Peddles Fake News on Immigration and the Media Exaggerates Biden's Decline

Gaming the Scenarios for Political Violence: A Conversation with Patrick Eddington

Indonesia's Next President Aspires to be a Strongman

Contrary to Western Understanding, Islam Is a Liberal Faith

Tim Scott Offers His Honor For a Shot at Trump’s Veepstakes

Should the Supreme Court Rule Against Kicking Trump Off the Ballot? A Debate

The New Right's Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left's

Defense of Campus Free Speech Doesn't Require Crying McCarthyism

The Dutch Trump's Challenge to Holland's Liberalism

The Right's Troubling Turn Toward Conspiracy Theories and "Invasion" Language

Secretary Mayorkas Is Being Impeached for Following the Law on Border Enforcement

Texas' Border Defiance Might Be the First Volley in a New Civil War

What's So Bad About Populism?

What's So Bad About Populism?

Taylor Swift’s Innate Decency Drives MAGA Warriors Crazy

Trump Would Turn the Military Into His Personal Political Weapon in His Second Term

On Ballot Access, Trump Shouldn’t be Treated as More Equal than Others

Invasion Rhetoric Is Radicalizing the Right

What Do Efforts to Bar Trump From the Ballot Accomplish? A Conversation with Andy Craig

What the Plight of Palestinians Signifies to the Muslim World

Liz Cheney’s Stand Against Trump: Too Late, But Not Too Little

The Demand Side of Populism in America: A Conversation with Tom Shull

India's Modi Is Not Inaugurating a New Temple, He Is Burying the Spirit of Tolerance

Taking Antisemitism Seriously Doesn’t Require Downplaying Islamophobia

Our Survey Finds Populism Is Four Times as Prevalent Among Trump’s Supporters as Biden’s

The Forever Culture War: How the Right’s Parallel Economy Feeds Off Conflict

The Forever Culture War: The Right’s Efforts to Create a Parallel Economy to Go After the Left

An Illiberal Hinduism Is a Contradiction in Terms

Nikki Haley Has a Shot at Beating Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential Nomination

Trump's Attempts to Secure Immunity Are Unlikely to Work

Right-Wing Populists Are Just as Bad for Business as Left-Wing Ones

Threats of Political Violence Are Injurious to Democracy Too

Allowing Trump on the Ballot Is What Is Truly Anti-Democratic

To Save the World, Fight for Liberalism