Robert Misik 
As emergencies mount and extremism feeds on paralysis, democratic forces need more than lowest-common-denominator coalitions to break the cycle of political decay.
Despite securing key ministries and policy successes, Germany’s Social Democrats face internal disarray and a fractured vision at their upcoming party conference.
A harsh, right-wing authoritarianism is rising, casting a shadow of unfreedom as classic conservatism fades.
A radical leader edges towards transforming Austria's democracy, sparking widespread concern.
Progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline.
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has surged to dominance in national elections, with major implications for democracy and political stability.
After the elections in eastern-German Länder and ahead of those in Austria, Robert Misik casts an unsentimental eye on far-right voters.
The elections might see not only gains for the right-wing populists but also, Robert Misik warns, a relapse into austerity.
We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.
Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.
A state that protects—and a bulwark for democracy and modernity. Is this, Robert Misik asks, the new paradigm of the democratic left?
The messy struggle for leadership of Austria’s social democrats, Robert Misik writes, nevertheless has echoes for others.
The Austrian social democrats are heading into a leadership contest, Robert Misik writes. For the SPÖ it could get bumpy.
Democratic socialists must take back the concept of freedom from the libertarians, Robert Misik writes.