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Heeding far-right calls for stricter migration controls will not halt the far right’s rise. The resignation of Keir Starmer, the Danish Social Democrats’ recent electoral defeat, and the Dutch Socialist Party’s string of losses all affirm this

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With De la Espriella’s victory, Colombia now appears poised to join the mano dura trend represented by countries like El Salvador and Ecuador. Yet the result demonstrates that the Colombian left’s vision of society is far from a minority position.

It is not clear that Democrats have any sense of what they want the American Republic to be, versus a sense of the kinds of policies they hope to institute.

Far-right Abelardo de la Espriella topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda is still in the race but now has to find support outside the ruling party’s core vote.

Yes, it exists. It’s not really a threat to anyone except neo-Nazis—but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery of federal law enforcement loose on anyone with “dangerous” ideas.

Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him.

Responding to spiraling disaster

The far right insists that only it knows how to govern because its ideology is the only legitimate way to look at the world. The TSA funding fight illustrates how lawmakers who ignore the real world to cleave to ideology strengthen authoritarianism.

The scramble for hegemony