Yascha Mounk
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As the Trump Scandals Grow, Believe What You’re SeeingJust because a constitutional crisis hasn’t come yet, doesn’t mean it won’t.
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The Failure of the Center-RightEurope’s conservatives are failing to prevent the spread of right-wing authoritarianism.
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The Right Kind of PartisanJohn McCain respected those he profoundly disagreed with. His adversaries should do the same.
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Hindus FirstNarendra Modi has amassed huge power by claiming to fight for the “real” India. Is he a danger to the world’s biggest democracy?
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Liberals Don’t Have to Defend Sarah Jeong’s TweetsThe impulse to bash “old white men” is satisfying, but it’s also wrong and counterproductive.
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Trevor Noah Doesn’t Get to Decide Who’s FrenchThe Daily Show host says his critics in Europe missed the context of his World Cup commentary. But he’s making the same mistake.
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An “Extraordinarily” Trumpian Day in HelsinkiScenes like the Helsinki summit still seem strange to us. But we’re getting numb to them.
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The Case for OptimismFive years ago, Facebook and Twitter were supposed to be democracy’s savior. Today, many blame social media for its ills.
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Turkey’s WarningWhy Erdogan’s consolidation of power should be cause for concern in every liberal democracy.
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Putin’s ScapegoatMeet the man who made it his life’s task to improve America’s relations with Russia—and ended up as a prime target of Putin’s ire.
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Even Canada Is Not Immune to the Rise of PopulismHow Doug Ford, brother of Rob Ford, quickly surged to drag the once-liberal bastion to the right.
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Destroying Democracy to Save ItThe president of Italy’s move to block the populists will only make them stronger.
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Don’t Give Up Hope on RussiaThe Kremlin tried to kill him—twice. But Vladimir Kara-Murza still believes that democracy will prevail in Russia.
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Are Things As Bad As They Look?The Good Fight has been chronicling the rise of populism for nearly two years. So what have we learned? And where are we headed?
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Light in the Darkest TimelineCould this week’s Manafort and Cohen developments finally do real damage to the Trump presidency? We’d better hope so.
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After NATODonald Trump is doing enormous damage to the trans-Atlantic relationship.
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The Radical ModerateJake Sullivan, one of the most prominent policy wonks in the Democratic Party, makes the case for more radical and imaginative economic policies.
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Leading From BelowHow populists can transform governments—even when they don’t lead them.
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So Much For the InstitutionsKennedy’s retirement proves we can’t count on elites to constrain Trump’s worst excesses
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Trump Finally Went Too FarThe reaction to family separations proved the public outrage still matters—and that attitudes on immigration are more complicated than we often think.
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A New ChoiceMaine’s experiment in ranked-choice voting is a rare cause for optimism about our democracy.
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The Conversations We Need to HaveA new forum for cross-partisan dialogue sparks a tiny bit of hope for the Trump era.
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The Red and the BrownItaly’s emerging political order shows how easily the far-left and far-right can join forces.