Are far-right politics just the new normal?

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TORONTO — At a conference bookended by speeches from former President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the leading lights of the global center-left gathered to consider their fate. The Global Progress Action Summit was billed as a “progressive version of CPAC,” the right-wing conference that has becomeContinue Reading

Nebraska Democrats clash in U.S. House primary for the state’s ‘blue dot’ district

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OMAHA, Neb. — The fate of Nebraska’s “blue dot” – a small, but significant factor in presidential politics – will take center stage Tuesday as Democratic voters select a congressional nominee in the state’s high-profile 2nd District. The Omaha-area district, where Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon is retiring, is oneContinue Reading

Local elections reveal the deep fracturing of UK politics and put the writing on the wall for Keir Starmer

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Elections in England, Scotland and Wales have put further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s already troubled leadership of the United Kingdom’s Labour government. These results are further evidence of significant trends in all liberal democracies – not least Australia. First, they suggest the era of dominance by two major partiesContinue Reading

Democrats Have a Joe Biden Problem. Again.

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When was the last time you thought about Joe Biden? If the answer is “recently,” that’s probably a sign that you should consider taking up a hobby or joining a club—anything, really, that doesn’t involve politics. An irrelevancy from the moment he belatedly ended his campaign in July 2024, theContinue Reading