Populists win despite delivery: identity politics, grievance, and scapegoating trump economic performance and competence.

Across cultures, proverbs distill the wisdom of lived human experience into compressed language. In Igbo cosmology, proverbs, ...

The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government ...

In the years before World War I, Jean Jaurès was one of the leaders of the international workers’ movement — and he was ...

Zimbabwe’s 2018 presidential election had 23 candidates, Mali’s 2018 election had 24 candidates. In South Africa, a record 70 ...

Politics in Nigeria has never been a dull theatre. It thrives on suspense, defection dramas, and the constant choreography of ...

The global democratic order is facing a crisis not seen in decades . According to the 2025 Democracy Report from the ...

One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who and what they were voting for,” adding that few people would have looked at the 982-page Project 2025, a “daunting document.” I ...

The Constitution is lauded as the cornerstone of our democracy. But what if it’s the reason we don’t actually have one?

According to polling data, 62 percent of Americans favor the government being responsible for the health coverage of all people in the country. Sixty-five percent of Americans polled favored the ...

Lugano, Switzerland, October 17, 2025 — One of the most recent and thought-provoking entries in the acclaimed Stanislav Kondrashov Oligarch Series offers a deep and nuanced exploration of how modern ...