The angry tweets and comments from President Donald Trump and his advisers after the recent G7 meeting in Quebec underscore the often-confrontational approach the Trump administration has taken toward the nation’s major allies — the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. But before the tweets and punditry, what […] Read more »
Americans Like Canada Most, North Korea Least
Canada once again ranks as the country or territory that Americans view most favorably, while North Korea ranks the least favorably among 22 countries on the world stage. CONT. Megan Brenan, Gallup Read more »
The End of the Left and the Right as We Knew Them
By now it has become quite clear that conservative parties in Europe and the United States have been gaining strength from white voters who have been mobilized around issues related to nationalism — resistance to open borders and to third-world immigration. In the United States, this development has been exacerbated […] Read more »
Donald Trump Is Making Europe Liberal Again
… So if you’re keeping score at home, right-wing nationalist parties have had disappointing results in Austria, the Netherlands, France and the U.K., and they appear poised for one in Germany, although there’s a long way to go there. I haven’t cherry-picked these outcomes; these are the the major elections […] Read more »
Uncertainty, More Than Populism, Is New Normal in Western Politics
Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, has joined a long line of politicians who have gambled that they understood the populist wave overtaking Western politics and lost. Thursday’s election capped a year in which the latest theory of politics in the populist era perpetually seemed to prove incorrect, as did many […] Read more »
New poll puts Macron’s party on top in French parliament vote
French President Emmanuel Macron’s party is expected to win the most votes in the first round of June’s parliamentary election, a poll showed on Tuesday which reinforced the similar pattern of previous surveys this week. The Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll for France Television and France Radio said Macron’s start-up Republic on […] Read more »