Emily Schultheis

How to Discuss the Far Right Without Empowering It

A lesson from Germany

• Emily Schultheis
• Aug 14, 2018

Cambodia Eviscerates Its Free Press—And the Whole Region Suffers

With authoritarianism on the rise, does an independent media have a future?

• Emily Schultheis
• Jul 28, 2018

Macron's Upstarts Have Become the Establishment

How does a Jupiterian president keep his grassroots movement alive?

• Emily Schultheis
• May 16, 2018

Can Hungary Defeat a Budding Strongman?

The opposition parties seeking to oust Viktor Orbán could have a chance in Sunday’s election—if they could just get along.

• Emily Schultheis
• Apr 6, 2018

How Italy's Five-Star Movement Is Winning the Youth Vote

They can’t find jobs, and the centrist parties have failed them, opening space for the populists.

• Emily Schultheis
• Mar 2, 2018

Fear and Loathing in the Bundestag

Germany’s far-right AfD party is still learning to govern. But it has already changed how Berlin does business.

• Emily Schultheis
• Feb 5, 2018

The Czech Republic's Fake News Problem

In the country’s parliamentary elections this weekend, anti-establishment parties are getting a major boost from web sites trafficking in sensationalizing stories.

• Emily Schultheis
• Oct 21, 2017

A New Right-Wing Movement Rises in Austria

By turning the People’s Party into a vocal anti-immigrant force, Sebastian Kurz remade it in his own image.

• Emily Schultheis
• Oct 16, 2017

Germany's Right-Wing Populists Are Importing U.S.-Style Campaign Tactics

How a prominent GOP-linked political firm engineered the AfD’s strategy

• Emily Schultheis
• Sep 29, 2017

What Right-Wing Populists Look Like in Norway

Can they avoid the nativism of their European peers?

• Emily Schultheis
• Sep 12, 2017

The Merkel Effect

Neither Germany’s refugee crisis nor the rise of populism seem capable of dislodging the chancellor.

• Emily Schultheis
• Sep 5, 2017

What Went Right With the French Campaign Polls?

Previous experience with National Front voters helped pollsters navigate this year’s election.

• Emily Schultheis
• May 13, 2017

Marine Le Pen's Real Victory

Her National Front party may have lost on Sunday, but its political future is bright.

• Emily Schultheis
• May 7, 2017

The Macron Leaks Probably Came Too Late to Change the French Election

There are limits to the parallels with America’s 2016 vote—and a big difference is the media.

• Emily Schultheis
• May 6, 2017

Can a French Political Upstart Ride Obama's Strategy to Victory?

If the polls are right, Emmanuel Macron is the likely next president of France.

• Emily Schultheis
• Apr 21, 2017

O'Malley on the Bubble for Next Debate

The former Maryland governor's polling numbers barely meet the criteria for inclusion in the Jan. 17 Democratic face-off.

• Emily Schultheis
• Jan 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton Says ISIS Is Using Trump as a Recruiting Tool. Is She Right?

A host of media reports corroborate her claim, save for one very specific detail.

• Emily Schultheis
• Dec 19, 2015

Bernie Sanders Visits Mosque to Talk Security, and GOP “Demagogues”

“They want us to believe that the average Muslim is a terrorist.”

• Emily Schultheis
• Dec 16, 2015

Hillary Clinton Links Guns, Terrorism in Security Address

“Terrorists use guns to kill Americans, and I think we should make it harder for them to do that ever again.”

• Emily Schultheis
• Dec 15, 2015