“The last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is going to try to undermine American democracy...

There is little respite from clownish demagoguery once a long-standing political order loses credibility and legitimacy among a significant...

Malaysia shows that demagoguery doesn’t have to be the inevitable consequence of elite misrule.

Opposition politicians and ‘liberals’ are routinely attacked, but for the first time a senior ruling party politician has been put through ...

Behind Modi's landslide win in 2014, the most crucial factor was his appeal to the aspirations. Adityanath’s appointment risks betraying th...

For his angry followers, he has identified a range of enemies that stand in their way: unreliable minorities, liberal elites and other root...

Both Modi and Trump are accompanied by the rise of rightwing media allied to their respective causes, both are populist demagogues who sway...

The UN's rights chief warned today that Donald Trump's statements pointed to a "dangerous" figure emerging on the world stage if he won the...

The former Union Minister also said that there is no uncertainty over Rahul Gandhi stepping into the shoes of his mother to become Congress...

Accusing the "whole" media of being "sold out", Arvind Kejriwal had threatened to send media people to jail after an inquiry into the issue...

Congress today said the Gujarat Chief Minister was trying to play a polarisation politics based on religion.

"The past 49 days witnessed an unconventional govt. It was a govt without an agenda and without an ideology," Jaitley wrote in a blog.

"It is now clear that the alternative politics is anarchy. This has been admitted by the leader of the AAP," Jaitley wrote.

If India is pockets of California in the middle of sub-Saharan Africa, as Amartya Sen puts it, then Muzaffarnagar is decidedly the latter.

The hanging of Guru is expected to insulate the govt, which has been under bitter attack from Opposition over “limp-wristed” approach to te...

Scratch the surface and he emerges as one of the many city-based politicians with huge stakes in the lucrative real estate market.

P Chidambaram said the government and Andhra parties now have to "take options 4, 5 and 6 and suggest a way forward".