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From wrestlers to movie stars, celebrities have risen to some of the highest political offices around the world. What makes them so appealing?
The poet in a picture by Gustave Courbet.
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His legacy connects a great swathe of modern popular culture.
Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Effective political campaigns use three main online strategies; research identifies which of them is most effective.
For the many, not the…who?
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Right-wing and left-wing populists both claim to speak for victimised or disenfranchised majorities. Here’s the difference.
We’re in with the out-crowd Donald.
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A year of political upheavals introduced us to the new insurgent tribes.
Not exactly Mr Popular: Paolo Gentiloni.
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Paolo Gentiloni’s government is barely distinct from his predecessor’s, and its mandate is desperately thin.