In this past June’s debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, Biden cited another academic survey—the 2024 “Presidential ...

It might feel good to demonize Trump and dismiss his supporters as ignorant and deluded, but where does that get us? Only ...

Worse still, your willingness to discount mainstream sources of evidence in favor of the outlandish claims of demagogues ...

Demagogues gain popularity by demonizing elites, scapegoating “others,” exaggerating dangers to stoke fear and anger, lying for emotional effect, drowning out reasoned deliberation ...

The MAGA ascendency is evidence that much of the U.S. has entered a post-rational, post-civic political sphere where ...

To safeguard our political and governing institutions against Trump and lesser demagogues, we’re going to need a bigger, ...

Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those ...

There’s a temptation to retreat. If you have a stable job, a good family and good friends, you can check out of politics.

By 2020, after the chaos, the derangement, and the incompetence, we knew a lot better. And most other Americans did too, ...

With a very closely divided, near-dysfunctional House, President-elect Trump should not be cannibalizing the Republican caucus for spots in his administration.

Rabble-rousers whose primary objective is to gain power are demagogues and they should not be confused with those who are simply good and/or inspiring orators. Corporate leaders, like political ...

Two words dominated the presidential campaign from the beginning to the end: gas and groceries. For all the twists and turns ...