A New Hope for Mexico?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador is hardly the demagogue of his critics’ imaginations. The more relevant question is: if he becomes Mexico’s next president, will he actually bring the changes the country needs?
Winter 2026
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The Italian Elections Were a Victory for Trumpism
After Sunday’s vote, it’s official: far-right and anti-establishment parties dominate Italy’s political landscape.
Anti-Semitism vs. Democracy in Poland
The passage this month of Poland’s notorious “Holocaust Bill” should be a warning to those who ignore the link between anti-Semitism and growing authoritarianism.
The Trumpian Personality 
One of the crowning works of the Frankfurt School, The Authoritarian Personality has much to teach us about the age of Trump.
When Democracy Isn’t Popular
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Watch: Rural Electric Cooperatives and the Unlikely Case for Utility Populism
Dissent contributor Kate Aronoff speaks to C-SPAN about rural electric cooperatives and their potential to seed a grassroots green populism.
Emmanuel Macron’s Assault on French Democracy
As Emmanuel Macron bypasses French democracy to enact a sweeping pro-business agenda, a new resistance is taking shape.
Germany: The End of the Mighty SPD?
Once an anchor of European social democracy, Germany’s Social Democratic Party has suffered its worst loss since 1932. Can it reclaim the mantle of opposition from the far-right AfD?
Pride and Prejudice
Recent disavowals of Trump may not exculpate his early supporters. But they press the question: what would a real populism look like?
The New Working Class
Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today’s working class for what it really is.
Democrats Need More Than the Working Class
To win meaningful gains for working people, Democrats first need to win elections with the coalition they have.
Scenes from the Front: France’s Front National in Power
Since March 2014, the Front National (FN) has governed eleven French municipalities. The photographs here, from a two-year reporting project on three of these FN cities, offer a glimpse of what a France run by the FN might look like.
The Logic of Populism
Jan-Werner Müller’s understanding of populism is built on a theory of anti-totalitarianism designed for an enemy that no longer exists.
France: The Death of the Elephants
With this year’s elections, French politics has become less predictable than at any time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. It remains to be seen whether this volatility will reward the left—or the populist far right.
The Left That Never Was
In 1998, many North American and European intellectuals hailed the emergence of a new Latin American left when Hugo Chávez ascended to the presidency of Venezuela. When Evo Morales became president of Bolivia in 2006, and Rafael Correa won the …
