Leigh and Atherton MP Jo Platt considers how political candidates are chosen ahead of the Makerfield by-election.

Democrats and Republicans traded visions for America this week, both in the State of the Union address and on the campaign trail. Both parties are embracing the core message that America's ...

MINOT — Those whose understanding of American politics is no more discerning than "red state versus blue state" probably don't see a lot of differences between North Dakota and South Dakota. Both are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Populism is a political ideology that positions “the people” as a morally just, good ...

Discourse theory offers a framework for understanding how populist movements construct political reality through language, symbols and practices. At its core is the idea that “the people” and “the ...

Populist discourse frames politics as a moral confrontation between a virtuous people and a corrupt elite, positioning itself as the authentic voice of popular sovereignty. As a thin-centred ideology, ...

Populists and abundance proponents have retreated into factional warfare. But both sides need to realize that they need each other. Ezra Klein and Sam Seder in the middle of an argument about ...

Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to red—after a century of Democratic Party ...

In 2017, in the wake of Brexit and Donald Trump’s first election win, populism was named the “word of the year” by Cambridge University Press. Almost a decade later, we might have thought the term’s ...