"Populism is what we desperately need. What we have to have and what we can't have." That's Thomas Frank. And he says that while populism can metastasize into authoritarianism, it doesn't have to. In ...

Roots of revolution: a history of the populist and socialist movements in nineteenth century russia - Franco Venturi An extensive work on Russian narodism/socialism spanning from the Revolutions of ...

To call Trump a “populist” is to desecrate the memory of the 19th century movement that took on robber barons like him. A hay crew poses with a baler circa 1890. At the time, populism was uniting ...

The United States, in the first few decades after the Civil War, underwent a great transformation, moving from an almost wholly agricultural nation to one that became one of the world’s most dominant ...

The rise of populism has received extensive academic and media attention. Research into the uses of “populism” in news media indicates that it predominantly has a disparaging connotation and is ...

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In recent decades, income and wealth disparities have widened significantly in many European countries. At the same time, support for populist parties has grown. Previous studies have already pointed ...

Richard Epstein has offered an interesting contrast between what he calls a “growth industry” of populism as it currently manifests itself on the right, with the MAGA followers of Donald Trump, and ...

Last week Mike Pence gave a speech at Saint Anselm College that, depending on your view of the man, was either courageous or desperate — or both. Titled “Populism vs. Conservatism: Republicans’ Time ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic about what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's electoral loss means for the future of right-wing populist movements around the world.