Yesterday
- Opinion
- Opinion
Vaccination race reveals two distinct populisms
The global race to vaccinate has a use beyond the narrowly medical: it is also dividing the global populists into authoritarians and feral libertarians.
- Updated
- Janan Ganesh
This Month
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Fortress Australia populism could cost us best and brightest migrants
A reopening plan with real targets and greater certainty would help stop a brain drain that will cost us economically in the long run.
- Zali Steggall
April
- Opinion
- Opinion
Duterte moves to shore up his post-election influence
The Philippines’ populist leader is likely to pull out all the stops to aid the victory next year of a political ally, who would allow him to retain influence and protect him from accountability for his abuses of power.
- Liam Gammon
January
- Opinion
- Bonds
Why central bankers pump up assets
The effects of blunt monetary policy have created a divide between the have and have-nots, and the populist agitation could lead to more binary policy alternatives, and unstable investment conditions.
- Chris Dickman
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
What a pro-worker Republican Party really looks like
As a starting point, Republicans must reject President Donald Trump's populist policies and bromides.
- Michael R. Strain
December 2020
- Opinion
- Review
The real class war is between those at the top
A new theory blames the political turmoil in the west on ‘elite overproduction’ as snubbed insiders form alliances with the more legitimately aggrieved masses.
- Janan Ganesh
November 2020
- Analysis
- UK leadership
Britain after Domexit: the culture wars go on
Dominic Cummings started wars with the European Union, the BBC, the Electoral Commission and the civil service. Boris Johnson will be left to fight them.
- Ian Dunt
- Opinion
- US votes 2020
Populists worldwide have lost their leader
The US presidential election result is not only a big blow to Trump, but also to his fan club of international leaders. The more hardcore will dig in, hoping their hero can make an unlikely comeback in 2024.
- Gideon Rachman
August 2020
Populism is back in the US election, but not as you know it
It's not Donald Trump's campaign but Joe Biden's economic agenda that is being shaped by the much maligned movement.
- Andrew Clark
- Opinion
- US election
Why I am a Biden conservative
A big win for the Democratic candidate is the only way to avoid radicalising both right and left in America.
- Bret Stephens
July 2020
How the pandemic exposed the shortcomings of populist leaders
The type of persuasive communications strategy needed to manage a collective response to contagious disease runs counter to the archetypal story upon which populism is founded.
- Philip Seargeant
June 2020
- Opinion
- Opinion
Coronavirus could kill off populism
Populists hate to be unpopular. That is why Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro have proved so bad at handling COVID-19, a crisis that brings nothing but grim news.
- Gideon Rachman
May 2020
What Ivanka Trump 'taking the red pill' says about the White House
The president’s daughter is not just a rich kid – she's also a representative of the US with an understanding of the alt-right political fringe.
- Sarah Manavis
- Opinion
- Opinion
Bolsonaro’s populism is leading Brazil to disaster
If life were a morality tale, the COVID-19 antics would turn Brazilians against the populist president. But it's not that simple.
- Updated
- Gideon Rachman
February 2020
'Populist politics': Business slams Rex Patrick over tax attacks
The Centre Alliance senator has slammed the bosses of ExxonMobil and EnergyAustralia, but business is pushing back against his campaign.
- Tom McIlroy
The new face of Sinn Féin
Irish voters have put a party with long links to criminality and terrorism into the box seat to form the next government.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Opinion
Climate wars are the Aussie Brexit
The National Party turmoil was driven by populist reaction against a world vision that has little place for factory workers and no room for coalminers.
- John Roskam
January 2020
- Analysis
- International affairs
How the US, EU could clip the wings of ambitious post-Brexit Britain
Britain used to portray itself as a bridge between the US and Europe. There's some risk it may end up being more of a see-saw.
- Hans van Leeuwen
The upside of populism
Like in the Gilded Age of America the same impulse that brought Trump to power could save US democracy.
- Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Europe's far right has stalled
Despite growing political fragmentation, the centre is holding. Nationalist populists are still as unsuited to governing as ever.
- Leonid Bershidsky
