Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rise of populist leaders and movements is sometimes the partial result of people's economic insecurities and worries about the ...

I am fascinated by the opposing connotations some political words have in the United States, on the one hand, and in Europe and Latin America, on the other. One such word is “liberal” — which in the U ...

Populism is on the rise across Europe, often with help from Russian propaganda. Because of its corrosive effects on confidence in NATO, EU, and democratic politics at large, the growth of populism is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Populism has re-emerged as central to political debates across the ...

As we watched the outgoing president’s cult of rabid followers storm the capital, we spectators could at least feel secure in the knowledge that, although we might have witnessed the ugly truth about ...

Populist movements have gained ground in many Western European countries, from the United Kingdom’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union to Italy’s formation of a populist government this spring. A ...

During a September rally in Alabama for Roy Moore, the controversial Republican senate candidate, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon declared, “This populist, nationalist, ...

For months, a burgeoning grassroots movement has staged flash mobs across Italy to express opposition to the country’s populist firebrand, Matteo Salvini. Its ability to pack city squares with tens of ...

Populism’s global rise was tested on Sunday when French voters went to the polls in the final ballots of the 2017 presidential election there. Centrist internationalism won, though strands of populism ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Populism is a political ideology that positions “the people” as a morally just, good ...