Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time.
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With EU elections approaching, the Kremlin has backed some of the most noxious reactionaries now operating on the world scene.
Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.
From Europe to the United States, creative coalitions of activists and scholars could break the right-wing wave unleashed by the failures of the more traditional liberal-neoconservative political class.
To challenge fascists and weak-tea liberals, Sanders has called for a Progressive International... but it's not very international.
What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements — and the order they seek to replace.
The far right is on the rise from North America to Europe to Asia. Each case is different, but they share key similarities — and require similar responses.
Far more dangerous than the far-right effort to win elections alone is its concerted campaign to change the culture — a strategy it owes, perversely, to the left.
Eastern Europe led the way with the kind of right-wing "populism" that now occupies the White House.
Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we're one step closer to globalizing the alt-right.