The coming tax cuts cannot possibly be the great and simplifying tax reform that the President and Big Six claim, and that our nation so badly needs.

State-level Democratic leaders are showing how populism and pragmatism combined can energize liberal turnout while still winning crucial swing-state support.

Japan’s voters endorsed more of the same in this weekend’s snap elections—but Abe’s enlarged mandate could spell big changes for the constitution.

The demographic crisis affecting E.U. countries will not be solved by the many young immigrants coming from North Africa and the Middle East.

This year’s Czech elections prove that politically disruptive populism does not line up exclusively with extreme right-wing ideologies.

Everywhere it plays its games, Russia is more an opportunist than a puppet-master. Southeast Europe provides a good case study.

Ksenia Sobchak’s sham presidential run shows how corrupt and tightly-controlled Russia’s system really is.

A pall of uncertainty has descended on Russia in the run-up to the next presidential elections and beyond.

Much like Macron, the fresh-faced Austrian leader rose to political prominence amid a surge of European populism—and is testing a new way to handle the challenge.

Austria’s next Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz has managed to do what Germany’s Angela Merkel couldn’t.