Mike Michener of New London is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa and a former political appointee in the Biden and Obama administrations. The massive crowds turning out for Sen.

Again, if a country has had a populist leader once, it is more likely to have another one. Economic crises make populist rule ...

For centuries, the United States of America has been hailed as a paragon of pluralism and free speech. Unfortunately, earnest political discourse has become largely impossible in America, and ...

Populism is in the air, providing unique opportunities and challenges to the Left. Recent electoral victories, such as Zohran Mamdani’s win, have shown the success of centering material demands with ...

Long regarded as two versions of the same populist phenomenon, they’re now clearly two different stories — each with its own cautionary tale. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by ...

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign that establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the defeats right-wing populism inflicted ...

Populism is more electorally effective than the new “Abundance” agenda, a progressive think tank and Democratic operatives are arguing in a preview of the party’s messaging divisions ahead of next ...

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.” ...

The main political argument in the 20th century was over the size of government. On the left, people tried to use government to reduce inequality and offer an economic safety net. On the right, people ...

The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective. It didn’t take long after the release of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book Abundance for the ensuing discourse to polarize itself ...

LIVERPOOL, England—Keir Starmer was ushered into Downing Street last year with a big majority and the promise that a dry, pragmatic leader of a British center-left party could prove an antidote to a ...