2017 has started poorly for Malcolm Turnbull. And now he must navigate a hazardous period of populism.
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A certain mentality has been on display in Western democracies of late – and we don’t really understand it.
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
As candidate, Trump promised protectionist trade policies and denigrated international agreements. Now, as president of the United States, how far can he go?
The fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to usher in ‘the end of history’, an eternal age of capitalist economics and liberal-democratic politics. It hasn’t turned out that way.
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
Populists now run the United States, Russia, Turkey, and the Philippines — as well as many Latin American and African nations. What does this mean for the world?
The legitimacy and credibility of those in power has been eroded by bad governance, patronage and the obsession to claim an exclusive agency representing the people.
Performance politics has made Donald Trump the new president of the United States. But this is far from new to south India, where the mixing of cinema and politics has a long history.
The high profile attack will polarise an already strained political debate in Germany.
Attacks like the one in Berlin harm democracy because they spread fear and self-censorship among citizens.
Europe’s populists are taking advantage of Trump’s victory, but the comparison only goes so far.
Paolo Gentiloni’s government is barely distinct from his predecessor’s, and its mandate is desperately thin.
Podemos positioned itself as leading a revolt by the people against the political system. Now, as Spain’s third-largest party, it is part of that system and has some difficult decisions to make.
Academic analysis is often ignored – and this is an indictment not of readers, but of academics.
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
In reelection bid, Merkel’s not just up against a xenophobic, nationalist party in Germany. In the wake of Trump’s election, liberal democracies around the world hope she’ll defend them, too.
One Nation has built on the racism of its original anti-Asian platform by linking Australia’s secular society to its Christian origins and presenting Islam as incompatible with this way of life.
In history and mythology, Europe always begins somewhere else. That should tell us something about creeping nationalism.
The famous story of a group of schoolboys trapped on an island is more than a little reminiscent of the real world right now.
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