Populism is, at best, a loosely defined term—more impulsive than principled. Its practitioners find solace in both the political left (Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and right ...

Once upon a time, Democrats were the party of populism. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in accepting his renomination for the presidency in 1936, famously said of the wealthy and business interests ...

The Democratic Party holds the state in the 1870s throughout the 1880s ... And they bolt from the Democrats and join the ...

Democrats have struggled with blue-collar voters but sense opportunity. Democrats for years have struggled with working-class, populist voters, ceding precious political territory to Republicans.

Former President Trump is leaning into a mix of populism, aggression and outright crudeness in the final stretch of the election campaign — and it might work. Trump appears to believe that the ...

Doing that would require embracing change, which is the last thing any politician beholden to populism wants to do. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.

But at least one segment of the global political class is publicly rejoicing: right-wing populists who are hailing the return of the U.S. leader who could validate and amplify their agendas.

In the aftermath of riots – fuelled by misinformation and the far right – the debate about immigration, racism and social cohesion in the United Kingdom has returned to centre stage.

Donald Trump is riding a populist revolt to a new Golden Age. He won a landslide victory Tuesday. He swept all of the swing states. He broke down the so-called “blue wall” of Wisconsin, Michigan, and ...

Trump touted populist measures like ending taxes on tips and Social Security, but also has less-discussed and not-so-populist plans for cutting taxes on corporations and easing up on antitrust ...

When administrative incompetence mixes with political partisanship, as has happened here, then another kind of mud emerges: populism. In this catastrophe, those anti-government forces that have ...

Doing that would require embracing change, which is the last thing any politician beholden to populism wants to do. The best recent illustration is former President Donald Trump’s interview last ...