Tag: Democracy (Theory and Philosophy)
This French Senator Has Become Trump’s European Nemesis
At a recent ceremony in Vichy, France, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, a small, dapper...
Pepe Mujica, the Former Uruguayan President, Removed the Pomp from Politics
José “Pepe” Mujica did not have much use for Uruguay’s three-story presidential residence, with its chandeliers, elevator, marble staircase and Louis XV furniture....
50 Years After the U.S. Left Vietnam, Another Retreat Is Shaking...
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a...
Marine Le Pen Falls to the Rule of Law and a...
Last year, Marine Le Pen spoke menacingly of the possible fallout from her trial on embezzlement charges. “Tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of...
Marine Le Pen Could Be Banned From France Election if She’s...
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has tried and failed three times to become president. Now, even as her popularity rises, she...
How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics
They are ripe for disruption.Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social...
Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right
At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism,...
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Looks to Trump and the U.S....
Jair Bolsonaro has had a rough couple of years: election losses, criminal cases, questionable embassy sleepovers. So when he finally received a piece...
As Trump Heads to White House, Bolsonaro May Be Headed to...
There is arguably no statesman who cuts such a striking political resemblance to Donald J. Trump than Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president.The two...
Shui Ka-chun, Hong Kong Activist, Dies
Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a...
