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 ...

The long-shot candidate for L.A. mayor has run an effective campaign. Can he tap into populist energy without alienating ...

Populism is on the rise across the globe, from Turkey to Hungary to Brazil. And in the world’s largest democracy, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ushered in a sweeping, economic modernization ...

In 2016, the German historian and political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller published “What Is Populism?,” a well-timed examination of rising political movements, from the United States to India. He ...

As populism has experienced a resurgence in recent years, many have focused on the hazards the ideology poses to democratic systems. But today’s complex and highly technical global threats—pandemics, ...

Translated excerpts of the panel Unmasking Populism marking the 25 th anniversary of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal Moderator Sewa Bhattarai:There are many terms in Nepali for ‘populism ...

Marine Le Pen's Front National have become a major political player in France. PA images/Kamil Zihnioglu. All rights reserved. Populism is becoming global. While in ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...