As he looks back on a life in ideas, he is able to see the flaws in his system. But he cannot take seriously the type of politics that might address them.

The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

Jan-Werner Mueller explains how—and how not—to interpret the far right’s recent victories in state elections.

This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Despite being enfranchised, electoral turnout among non-citizens in Sweden remains low.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

Independent local lists (ILL) have become an important non-partisan actor in many local elections. However, little is known about which factors explain their el...

London Review of Books

The prime minister says he will fund defence and get the welfare bill down in "the Labour way".

After the end of its wealth tax came a newfound ‘wealth porn’.

Jan-Werner Mueller explains how the Alternative for Germany is using aesthetics to advance its exclusionary political agenda.

In 1964, Fact magazine sent a survey to over 12,000 American psychiatrists, asking them whether they believed that the ultra-conservative Republica...

An anti-Farage army of voters is there to be galvanised, as exclusive data shows. But getting them out will be tricky, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.

The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put Westminster electoral reform back on the political agenda. This article examines the case for reforming the voting sy...

Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

The continent’s far right is embracing the concept of remigration in the Trump era

Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.

There's a pattern from by-election polls and even the last general election about how Reform's actual election results match up against what polls say in advance of polling day.

I summarize my understanding of democracy: the theory which predicts when elections peacefully manage conflicts and the empirical evidence regarding the co

The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe - Volume 35

Marlene Laruelle draw out five takeaways from the field of illiberalism studies, showing how illiberalism grows through everyday life, shared values, and the internal contradictions of liberalism.

“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

After Trump's Speech

July 14, 2026

Any path forward for the movement starts with hard questions.

Often, this descends into little more than an argument about eligibility for welfare benefits. This is a disaster for progressives, who find themselves fig

One of the reasons people become members of political parties is because of the benefits that membership offers. Yet, Stephanie Luke’s analysis of 376 registered political parties in the UK reveals th...

Anti-populist discourse often presents ‘populism’ as a threat to ‘expertise’, taking the side of ‘experts’ against their ‘populist’ opponents. However, the role of enjoyment in inciting identificat...