Sheri Berman explores how progressives can offer viable solutions and build effective political coalitions to reverse the populist victories since the financial crisis.
US presidential election: last call for the liberal world order?
Some might have taken for granted the liberal world order of postwar decades. Until Donald Trump trashed it.
Freedom is why Black Lives Matter
The US presidential election highlights the gap between the promise of freedom and justice and reality for African-Americans fuelling the recent protests.
Are there any persuadable voters left in the US?
‘White working-class men’ are seen as the hard core of Trump’s support, yet a big group of working-class voters—black, brown and white—are persuadable.
Reviving transatlantic relations after Trump
If Joe Biden were to win the White House, transatlantic relations could return to default or be transformed—with much depending on how Europe reacted.
US economy mired in viral stagnation loop
The travails of the US economy come amid a politics never so poisonous since the civil war.
Where did Trumpism come from?
A new book turns away from the ‘demand side’ focus of much populism analysis to the ‘supply’ of a plutocratic, ever-more right-wing Republican party.
Protests, the left and the power of democracy
Sheri Berman urges the American left not to squander the sea-change in public opinion of recent weeks by only preaching to the converted.
American traumas
Karin Pettersson explores the deep faultlines of unexpurgated racism tearing the United States apart.
America’s unhappy middle
Branko Milanovic unpacks the malaise of the US middle class and its implications for Democratic strategy towards the presidential election.
