Why has the use of the term “populism” been imposed when we already had at our disposal the term “demagogy,” which seems to designate the same thing? Or are we to think that the new term refers to a ...

In sympathy to everyone worried about high prices, it must be said that the oil market has been especially bewildering lately. But that’s no reason for anyone to accept demagogy. US Sen. Charles ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia is shifting the discussion on the topic of the country’s membership in the Eurasian ...

Yesterday’s blog on Misogyny, Demagogy, and Personal Responsibility raised some interesting emotional triggers in my readers. After all, we all easily agree Limbaugh was a bully when he called Fluke a ...

President Obama will unveil today the complement to his bogus “jobs” campaign—a plan to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid and lower tax rates for corporations and the ...

Adam McKay’s satire “Don’t Look Up” is a clever film that’s short on wit. The difference is that wit is multifaceted, like a gem that, however small, offers different glimmers at different angles.

Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry denounced “degrading images” and said France was lucky to have a law on the presumption of innocence that bars media from showing defendants in handcuffs before ...

Demagogy, half-truths and lies are invariably the stuff of bourgeois election campaigns. Invariably, because the political representatives of the ruling class, whether nominally “left” or “right,” ...

This week, Rush Limbaugh called a law student a slut for asking for health care birth control coverage in Congress. It was typical Middle Ages’ Inquisition misogyny. President Obama’s “rescue” of the ...