Nearly a month has gone by, and many people are still beside themselves to understand how Donald Trump was elected president again. A friend in England expresses “utter incredulity … bewilderment” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Maria Flynn writes about the intersection of education and work. But what is economic populism; what does history tell us about ...

In 1916, construction of the Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico was completed. That same year, the town adjacent to the reservoir was incorporated under the name Hot Springs, New Mexico — since there ...

One of the great mysteries about the rise of populism, in both the United States and Europe, is why it has benefited the political right so much more than the left. For years, American progressives ...

Over the last few decades, populists have come to power in a long list of countries. Italy elected Silvio Berlusconi, and Turkey empowered Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Venezuela had Hugo Chávez and now has ...

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 ...

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"Populism is what we desperately need. What we have to have and what we can't have." That's Thomas Frank. And he says that while populism can metastasize into authoritarianism, it doesn't have to. In ...