Renzi Picks Side in Italy’s Blue-Red Culture War
Italy’s once and possibly future prime minister presents himself as the alternative to populist nationalism.
Culture War
The culture war in Europe and North America pits cosmopolitan, college-educated, urban voters with liberal views against inward-looking, often lower-information voters in small towns and the countryside who resist change.
Clinton-Trump Redux in France
France has a chance to breathe new life into the world order America has turned its back on.
Rural Areas and Small Towns Feel Left Behind as Cities Grow
Globalization benefits big cities. Rural areas and small towns feel left behind, even if they’re not necessarily poor.
Revenge Against the City: Populists Revolt in America and Europe
Rural areas assert themselves by electing Donald Trump and voting Britain out of the EU.
Blue-Red Culture War in the Alps
Austria’s presidential election revealed the same divides we saw in America. How do we heal those divisions?
Van der Bellen’s Victory Sends Message to Other Countries
Openness and pro-European sentiment can win, but only by mobilizing the whole center and left.
François Fillon Leads Revolt of France’s “Discreet Bourgeoisie”
Middle-income voters in small-town France have lost patience after five years of socialism.
Liberal America Unwittingly Radicalized Trumpland
Liberals overreached and drove working white Americans into the arms of a demagogue.
Reprimand Liberals, Don’t Repudiate Liberalism
Liberals may have been aloof. That doesn’t mean they’ve been wrong on the issues.
Open or Closed? The Question That Divides Us
There are those who want to pull the drawbridge up and those who want to throw it down.
Don’t Push Ordinary People Over the Edge
Liberals and progressives need to do a better job of persuading those who might vote for nativists.
British EU Exit: An Expression of Counter-Cosmopolitanism
Britain’s vote to leave the EU is one example of a resurgent national yearning across the West.
EU Referendum Splits Britain Along Blue-Red Lines
The vote on Europe makes clear the divide in British politics is no longer between Conservative and Labour.
More Welfare Won’t Mend Europe’s Blue-Red Divide
The gap between cosmopolitans and populists is not just about the economy. It is a question of identity.
Middle England Finds Itself Between Blue-Red Divide
Conservative-leaning Middle England holds the balance in Britain’s European Union referendum.