Populism

Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped

As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?

2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year

We live in a world shaped by banal, slogan-heavy politics, and leaders whose ideas are tilted against the interests of the young. They will leave behind nothing but catastrophe

As visitors soak up high art and cheap beer, a billionaire populist chameleon and his far right outriders cronies are ready to turn the Czech Republic upside down

Two showmen, $40bn and one very fragile economy: what could possibly go wrong?

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

Populists have some very strange ideas about London. The best way to get over their irrational fears is to pay the capital a visit

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

The triumph of the pro-EU candidate in the Moldovan election is a victory for militant democracy

Andrej Babiš is a fan of the US president, and hates the EU. But if he wins the election, how extreme will he be?

The Lib Dems beat Reform at the election but lost the media war. Now their leader warns that Farage and Robinson seek to tear Britain apart for personal gain

MAGA wants all-out war on the left after the shooting of the right wing commentator, Charlie Kirk. Will Trump oblige?

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

A cross of St George or a union jack flown today means the same as it did in 1977: ‘You’re not welcome here’

Fuelled by the far right and the media and endorsed by other politicians who should know better, Islamophobia is becoming a new national pastime

With the government’s failing economic policies and rampant corruption, Magyar’s ascent is accelerating each day Orbán spends in office

The hard right rabble-rouser is reported to have left the country after police indicated they wanted to question him over an alleged assault

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

In a draining digital age of new problems and new tech, the planet’s most powerful leaders are all in their 70s – and increasingly at war with reality

The country’s new-found peace feels fragile once again after the attempted assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay

Far right nationalistic beliefs are now run-of-the-mill daily rhetoric in US public life

Labour has been dragged towards the Reform Party, mainly because of the debate over immigration. That has to stop. Here’s how

Hard right populists can get thrown out of power – just look at the Netherlands

Both Europe and America are being forced to face the populist right and they aren’t going to vanish all by themselves

Yet another had right opportunist has exploited the opening in European politics that the left continues to ignore

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

Milei's press clampdowns are attracting international coverage. But that isn't stopping him, if anything the president is doubling down

From El Salvador to Greater Lincolnshire via the White House, populists want to sweep aside the criminal justice system as we know it