For example, Tom Watson, a prominent Georgia populist, wrote in 1892 that populists should be “founding our new policy upon justice” and root it in “the simple but profound truth that ...

Ken Martin, the newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman, faces the herculean task of rebranding the party from an out-of-touch elitist stereotype to a populist agenda that represents ...

Several opposition parties, including the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), the nationalist S.O.S party and the Party of Young People, had sought Iohannis' ouster through an ...

Populist leaders like Trump commonly celebrate common sense and attack expertise and evidence. Populism is less about being liberal or conservative than it is a way of appealing to the public.

Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest last week's decision by Germany's conservatives to make overtures to the far right ahead of this month's legislative election, drawing at least ...

The Democratic Party as a whole is undergoing a revamping ... Many progressives have noted that Trump ran on a populist platform — no taxes on tips, no taxes on Social Security, and lowered ...

Members of her new populist party, dubbed Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht or BSW for the German acronym, split off from her former party — the Left Party —in 2023. They now now mix elements of hard-left ...

Big business is warning all sides of politics to avoid "populist" election promises such as backtracking on climate targets or "scapegoating" foreign students for the housing crisis. The Business ...

Jared Wesley is a professor of political science at the University of Alberta. Find him on Substack at Decoding Politics. The populist form of democracy sacrifices protections for minorities and ...