World

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

The Hindu nationalist prime minister has attacked minorities and institutions yet is poised for victory in the national elections

Apr 16 •

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

Populists rely on big promises and false premises to sell their methods to citizens—the outcome is rarely a happy ending

Apr 14 •

Aaron Ross Powell

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Javier Milei: An Illiberal Libertarian?

The Argentine president’s socially conservative populism might trump his free market economics

Apr 5 •

The Right Can't Love America Because it Hates Liberalism

That's why it is throwing in its lot with Putin and other authoritarians abroad

Apr 1 •

How Putin Turned Himself Into Russia's New Czar

He just won a fifth term in a land-slide through sham elections against handpicked opponents

Mar 19 •

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

His efforts to defund, censor, and harass his critics has created an uneven playing field

Mar 17 •

Kian Vesteinsson

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

The UnPopulist editors assess whether this Cold War alliance is still helping buttress liberal democracy

Mar 14 •

Berny Belvedere

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Why Do We Need to Fight Populism?

It's the road to authoritarianism

Mar 10 •

A Tale of Two Grocery Store Visits: Tucker vs Boris

The weird transformation of the former Fox anchor from libertarianism into a Russian propagandist

Mar 8 •

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

We should make sure that in America brave citizens never have to make such big sacrifices to hold a tyrant accountable

Feb 29 •

Robert Tracinski

Indonesia's Next President Aspires to be a Strongman

The election of the nationalist Prabowo Subianto might be a body blow to Indonesia's fragile democracy

Feb 23 •

The Dutch Trump's Challenge to Holland's Liberalism

Geert Wilders' right-wing populism relies on nasty attacks against Muslims and other minorities

Feb 13 •

David de Bruijn

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