Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: Last Thursday, the U.S. Treasury issued a proposed rule that restricts large institutional investors from acquiring new single-family rental homes. Rent Free Newsletter by Christian…
• Politics are based on emotion to generate a feeling of affective identification. • Intellectuals and experts are viewed with suspicion because of their ties with the elite. Their words are perceived as skewed and biased. • The idea that the general will…
By Ewan Scott | Oct 25, 2026 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics Across the United States, a powerful shift in voter priorities is reshaping the political landscape ahead of this year’s elections, with economic populism emerging as a dominant force. Voters from both sides…
The Long View’s Ruy Teixeira recently sat down with former Democratic Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen and former Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam to discuss next month’s midterm elections, with a focus on how issues like cost of living,…
Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States? The…
For political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN, Mathias Cormann’s warning against imitating populists carries a pointed message for the Coalition as it struggles to counter One Nation’s growing appeal. Mathias Cormann, these days secretary-general of OECD but formerly Liberal finance minister, is…
In Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent Populism, Robert A. Pape, an expert on political violence around the world whose research mines large data sets, argues that a new age is dawning in the United States: an…
—G-File: “High-Minded Words for a Low Form of Politics” —Andy McCarthy in National Review: “What to Make of the Trump DOJ’s Investigation of Ilhan Omar” —Jonah’s LA Times column —Jesse Singal in The Dispatch: “Fractured Realities” —Dissent Magazine: “Know Your…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds will be rolling into a town near you between now and Election Day. Byron Donalds wants to be Florida’s next governor. Not on our watch. More than seven months into the U.S. war with Iran,…
That’s right, folks. We are talking about an extreme-right party rising meteorically in Germany. Given Germany’s geographic and strategic centrality and its not-so-ancient history, can you think of anything quite as disturbing, or as bizarre? After all, Germany today is…
Populism and the New Right in Right-Wing News: the news, the names and what changed.
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