Populism

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

One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?

Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?

Ever since his exile in 2019, Evo Morales has been lining up a return to power and now he's summoned his supporters

The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains

The far right leader demanded French courts get tough on corrupt politicians. Now she is paying the price

Her political ban might boost the National Rally - but equally, it could now crumble. So let’s celebrate

The city’s referendum gives Parisians the chance to have their say. Should Britain do the same?

The shocking treatment of US deportees to El Salvador is just one attraction in Trump’s theme park of brutality. But why do so many Americans seem keen to buy a ticket?

Reform has thrown out MP Rupert Lowe, again raising the question of whether the British hard right is inevitably destined to tear itself apart

Argentina is one of the most politically forward-thinking countries in Latin America but its president is pushing a narrative that opposes feminism

China may soon become the most powerful country on earth – but the UK media has taken its eye off the ball thanks to the circus in America

The excesses of the social justice movements will not be missed – but something even worse has come to take their place

Two new books on the current threat to western democracy come to very different conclusions about who’s to blame and what to do about it

In a new book, the author argues that faced with multiple global crises, western civilisation is under threat – from the inside

The left knows how to fight austerity and centrists, but it has so far failed against the far right. Europe's future rests on its ability to learn

The tech bro’s ally Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming German chancellor

The leader of one of Germany’s main political parties relied on the extreme right wing AfD party to get his immigration bill through parliament. Big mistake

A populist surge across Europe is being fuelled by young people sick of broken promises, stagnant wages and waning hope. How can Keir Starmer respond?

Some readers are less concerned about the number of people coming to Britain and more worried about the lack of integration

There's a thin line between "progressives got a lot wrong" and "the far right are winning because they're right"