When Marine Le Pen took the reins of her father’s French far-right National Front party, she launched a well-crafted communication strategy to de-demonize the party’s image. She distanced herself from unsavory associations and condemned the party's more overtly racist...
Italian elections are always complex affairs, but the upcoming March 4 vote is one of the most bewildering in several decades: the right is resurgent, the left embattled, and the issue drawing the greatest fire and fury has little to do with the economic malaise that...
When it comes to the Russiagate scandal, progressives usually take one of two positions. They either dismiss the scandal as a lot of hooey, a "nothingburger," just a way for warmongers and the "Deep State" to revive a cold war between Washington and Moscow. Or they...
Coming just months after the election of Donald Trump in the United States, and as illiberal authoritarianism seemed to be creeping all over Europe, the election of French president Emmanuel Macron brought a sigh of relief to many across Western democracies. It was...
Much of the "alt-right" literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect. Images of George Soros using his "globalist" tentacles to smite his political enemies. Thought pieces on a "white genocide" so devious that barely any white people have noticed...
Don’t kid yourself: 2016 was a revolutionary year in the United States. Yes, I know, the United States is a deeply conservative country. Americans don’t engage in periodic attempts to overthrow the system. There is no viable political party that threatens the status...
Germany got its very own electoral shock this week when the far right won 13 percent of the vote in country's parliamentary elections. For the first time in more than half a century, the far right will be represented in the German parliament, with more than 90 seats....
Free trade and the freedom of capital to move across borders have been the cutting edge of globalization. They've also led to the succession of crises that have led to the widespread questioning of capitalism as a way of organizing economic life — and of its paramount...
The good news out of Europe is that Marine Le Pen’s neo-Nazi National Front took a beating in the May 7 French presidential election. The bad news is that the program of the winner, Emmanuel Macron, might put Le Pen back in the running six years from now. Macron...
The last thing Europe needs right now is advice from Americans, particularly American progressives. After all, we failed to prevent Donald Trump and his cronies from seizing the White House or the far-right wing of the Republican Party from taking over Congress....