Henry Olsen argues intelligently and plausibly that populist parties and ideas are on a march toward dominance eerily similar to the one taken by social-democratic and Labour parties more than a ...
Between the House GOP’s funding fight and Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican party, much has been made of the far-right’s sway. But what doesn’t get as much attention is the far-left’s influence in ...
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 president election outraged Democrats and delighted Republicans. Progressives have been tempted to console themselves with congenial fantasies or to sink into ...
“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in The Spectator, are “rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so ...
The idea the poverty threshold should be $140,000 is so ludicrous it deserves little real consideration. But this crazy idea is a great window into how populism works.
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth is joined by author William Galston to talk about his new piece in the Wall Street Journal making the case for continuing to fund the ...
In the new populist age, progressives face a harsh political landscape. If they move left, they likely turn their back on the voter anxieties and dissatisfactions that have fueled national populism’s ...