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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson approaches a podium for a coronavirus press conference

Anti-Populist Lessons of Coronavirus

a New York street vendor cart advertising masks for $5.00, beneath it a New York license plate reading 'Wall Street'

Populism or Neoliberalism? Explaining the Politics of the Pandemic

A woman with laptop works at a small desk while a child plays with toys in the foreground

Coronavirus and the Populist Other: May Intellectuals Cast the First Stone?

Donald Trump holding up his arms at public address in gesture of holding a rifle

Teflon Populism: Will it Slip or Falter?

Pedestrians wearing facemarks walk past the Eiffel Tower in May 2020

The World Before and After the Corona Crisis

gravestones with US and French flags at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.

Coronavirus and International Populism: Ideological and Generational Divides

Viktor Orban on state visit to Brazil with president Jair Bolaonaro in January 2019

Transnational Lineages of Authoritarianism: Hungary and Beyond

A backhoe buries coffins in a common pit at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil

Is Coronavirus Bad for Populism?

Filipino students join protest in Baguio denouncing the suppression of press freedom, February 2018.

Global Dynamics of Authoritarian Populism

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and President Trump exchange soccer jerseys bearing each other's names in the Oval Office, March 2019

Globalization and the Populist Challenge

former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2018

Five Hundred Days of Injustice

Jair Bolsonaro during 2018 election rally

International Implications of Brazil’s 2018 Elections

Cambridge Analytica office signage. Photo: Getty Images

We Should Worry About Authoritarian Practices, Not Just Populist Leaders

Rohingya parent and child at Kutupalong-Balukhali camp in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.

Populism and Persecution in Myanmar, the United States, and Beyond

flag of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- campaign rally in Istanbul, June 2018.

Democracy, diversity and the protracted populism of Turkey

flag-beaering marchers outside the Japanese parliamentary Diet building in Tokyo

Japanese Constitutional Principles as a Bridgehead to Global Democracy

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov plays in a charity football match

The Three Ps of Populism: Personification, Popularity and Provocation

Roman coin bearing name and likeness of Clodius Pulcher

Populism and the Politically Excluded: Lessons From Ancient Rome

Indian voters at 2014 rally wear masks of the face of Narendra Modi

Will ‘Democracy’ Survive, and in What Form? Hard Questions in Dark Times

Russian billboard showing presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: "Let's Make the World Great Again - Together!"

How dangerous is populism for democracy?

Phillipine labor protestors

How To Think About Populism

'God of Materialism,' by Chen Wenling

Public Imagination as Prophetic Legacy

"odio gli indifferenti" - I hate the indifferent. -A. Gramsci

Gramsci is Not the Answer

boy holds PiS party placard at demonstration in Poland (image: Wojtek Radwanski, AFP / Getty)

Neo-Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Antonio Gramsci

The Great Gramsci: Imagining an Alt-Left Project

Greek voters wave flags, EU referendum

A cure for the populist infection? A bigger dose of democracy!

Union of South American Nations flag

Where to, Latin America?

Occupy D.C. camp, McPherson Square. Washington, D.C. 2012. Image credit: Tommaso Durante

Public Imagination: The Challenge of Populist and Authoritarian Politics

Thomas Nast political cartoon, 1870: "Throwing Down the Ladder by Which They Rose"

The Citizens Have Spoken

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

What Do Cambodia and Hungary Have In Common? Trump!

people giving thounds down

Election 2016: Think Globally, Act Nationally

the author interviews a Syrian Kurdish refugee

Anti-Globalism and the Rise of Trump

PEGIDA supporters hold up 'Trump is Right' sign at march

Anticipating the Trump Presidency

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