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Mike Blake / Reuters Only Cowards Don’t Get Ratioed
If everyone always agrees with you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Reuters After Poland, No Democracy Is Safe
In the age of populism, certainty about the political future is a dangerous illusion.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters A Synagogue Attack on the Holiest Day of the Year
Whatever the motives behind the shooting in Germany, two lessons are already apparent.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Democracy in Poland Is in Mortal Danger
The country’s upcoming elections are crucial. And the United States is on the wrong side of the fight.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Democrats Are Blowing This Election
To defeat Trump, the Democratic presidential nominee will have to do more than turn out the base.
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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP What Boris Johnson Did to the World’s Most Stable Democracy
His decision to temporarily suspend Parliament is the most dangerous assault on Britain’s institutions in living memory.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Trump Could Win Again
He’s unpopular, scandalous, and a bigot, and we may be sliding into a recession. But that might not matter.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Democrats Should Just Stick to What’s Popular
Voters are more open to progressive economic policy now than in the recent past. But they are not opposed to capitalism.
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Clarence Hamm / Associated Press How Not to Run a Panel
Panel discussions can be very boring, but they don’t have to be if you follow these six rules.
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Associated Press / Thanassis Stavrakis The Rapid Fall of the Left
Sunday’s elections in Greece provide the strongest indication to date that the left is now in deep crisis.
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Associated Press The More You Watch, the More You Vote Populist
A new study ties consumption of entertainment television in Italy to support for Silvio Berlusconi.
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Bill Boch / Getty Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Sanders’s Speech About Socialism Was Deeply Unserious
In the senator’s view, the threat of autocracy comes exclusively from the right.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters What to Make of the European Elections
Right-wing populism is still growing—and has already established itself as a fixture on the political stage.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters A Russia Scandal Even Populists Couldn’t Stomach
In a sting video, the head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is seen soliciting illegal donations from a Russian billionaire.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters How Authoritarians Manipulate Elections
From Russia to Venezuela, the strongmen who have destroyed democratic institutions won high office at the ballot box.
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Sergio Perez / Reuters Spain’s Past Is Lost
The center-left won the election, but the far right received a significant share of the vote.
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J. David Ake / Reuters The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
Political leaders believe that the views they encounter online are representative of the “general public.” They’re not.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why the College Scandal Touched a Nonpartisan Nerve
We disagree on just about everything, but we all seem to believe that there are some things money shouldn’t buy.
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Miguel Schincariol / AFP / Getty What Populists Do to Democracies
According to our research, populist governments have deepened corruption, eroded individual rights, and inflicted serious damage on democratic institutions.
