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Published in: Home: FeaturePoor us: how collective narcissism powers Trump and Putin’s supportersIndividuals can feel narcissism for their group as well as themselves – and many politicians are succeeding by...
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Published in: Home: OpinionPrivatising Channel 4 is a right-wing attack on media freedom. Here’s whyThe government’s actions echo the behaviour of populists elsewhere in the world. But there’s a twist
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: OpinionProgressive politics in Latin America needs a Green Democratic RevolutionA green populism could be the basis of a new kind of politics in Latin America, one that embraces many of the...
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: OpinionTo achieve real political change, populism is necessaryBut the Left needs to know how to mobilise the people against power blocs
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisSpain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European...
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Published in: Global Extremes: AnalysisWhy are Christians in Germany more immune to far-Right populism than in the US?On opposite sides of the Atlantic, Christian communities are reacting very differently to the messages of right-wing...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: FeatureHow right-wing populists use food to legitimise their extreme views‘Getting breakfast done’: Italian strawberries, Hungarian pickles and a pint of English beer are all part of the...
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: InterviewSituating populism beyond the deformation of Eurocentric and post-democratic narrativesSpyros Sofos talks to Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia about their book ‘Seven Essays on Populism’ and...
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: OpinionRethinking politics, populism and platformsHow can we create a progressive ‘popular force’ in an era of digital media platforms dominated by the innovations of...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformationThe proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismIs Left populism possible?We need to fight precarity now and to ensure that, in the process, we retain and enhance the best of our...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismA world to win and a planet to saveLeft populism and socialist strategy under Corbyn – how could this prepare us for the Green New Deal? In response to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe assault on the Capitol was shameful. But defending the status quo isn’t the answerInstead of taking sides in a civil war within the establishment, we should ask a simple question: how can we build a...
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Published in: ourEconomyStep aside progressive patriotism – intergalactic humanism has arrivedNationalism will always be racist, no matter how ‘progressive’ it is. What would it mean to imagine a world beyond...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe blind spots of Left populismWhat the left needs is to refocus on its core principles of social justice and have the courage to defend them.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismWhy a populist Left should rally around a green democratic transformationThe Left must draw a frontier between the people and the oligarchy, and ecological transition is the thing around...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismCharting the waters: populism as a gendered phenomenonTake this first “walking tour” of openDemocracy’s rich archive of material dealing with the complex relation between...
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Published in: ourEconomyAgainst fascism in India: in solidarity, through careWomen are leading the resistance against the unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDemocracy and charisma: a dangerous liaisonIn India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?
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Published in: Frontline Insights: OpinionWhy do progressive movements struggle to answer populists? Because they are technocratsHuman rights activists need to express their passion and tell compelling stories, not just rely on facts and...
