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

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 ...

Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Amanda Taub Amanda Taub ...

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

President Biden speaks at a Department of Defense farewell ceremony, at Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall in Fort Myer, Virginia, January 16, 2025. REUTERS When Donald Trump is sworn in Monday, America ...

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 ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

What, some may wonder, just happened to our supposedly sacred democracy? A growing group of dissident right-wingers has sought to supply an explanation. United around the premise that the governance ...