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The Republican Party’s likely presidential candidate is a racist, misogynistic xenophobe. Many Americans and others – not to mention Republican leaders – may be horrified, but Donald Trump has merely brought to the US a political style developed in Europe and perfected in Russia.

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  1. Ancient Rome’s Donald Trump
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    Ancient Rome’s Donald Trump

    Apr 5, 2016 Philip Freeman profiles the politician that helped bring down the Roman Republic.

  2. Trump’s Italian Prototype
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    Trump’s Italian Prototype

    Mar 14, 2016 Bill Emmott draws lessons for the US from Italy's experience with Silvio Berlusconi.

  3. The World According to Trump
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    The World According to Trump

    Mar 10, 2016 Bernard-Henri Lévy places the Donald in the context of a politics perfected by Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin.

  4. The Politics of Anger
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    The Politics of Anger

    Mar 9, 2016 Dani Rodrik takes mainstream politicians to task for refusing to address the causes of rising populism worldwide.

  5. Donald Trump’s Message
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    Donald Trump’s Message

    Mar 4, 2016 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. criticizes the Republican presidential frontrunner for embracing a narrow and parochial appeal.

  6. The Great Populists
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    The Great Populists

    Feb 5, 2016 Jacek Rostowski says that a new breed of politicians poses a new set of risks to the West.

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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.
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    Banned By Germany

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Germany recently prohibited a Palestinian Congress from taking place in Berlin, arrested its Jewish supporters, and barred one of its organizers, Greece’s former finance minister, from entering the country. But the turn to repression is powerful evidence that the country’s pro-Israel political consensus is breaking down.

    sees in his case an effort to enforce with repression a pro-Israel political consensus that is breaking down.
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    China Should Emulate Taiwan’s Tech Policies

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng urge the Chinese government to follow the island's lead by embracing the financialization of innovation.
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    The Macron Moment

    Mark Leonard thinks the French president has the capability to provide the strategic leadership that Europe needs.
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    Is Climate Action China’s Trump Card?

    Li Shuo & Lauri Myllyvirta explain why the country’s emissions-reduction plan for 2035 could accelerate the fight against global warming.

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