Nativism and xenophobia surge in times of economic anxiety or cultural unease, and though the targets may change, the arguments against all of them tend to be all too familiar: They steal jobs. They ...

Guess what these developments have in common? • Immigration is quickly becoming the number-one issue of the 2006 Congressional campaign. • CAFTA, an innocuous trade agreement with five Central ...

CHICAGO — A political science professor recently co-wrote a book addressing nativism in the United States and people’s need for belonging. Author Clifford Young joined WGN News on Saturday morning to ...

Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...

The tone of the debate over the nation's immigration laws has taken an ugly turn as some office-seekers offer solutions to problems that don't exist. The natural rights of all persons consist of areas ...

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned of a brewing "systemic crisis" fueled by the rise of populist and anti-establishment politics around world, saying the U.S. needs to rely on "old ...

Who does this sound like? A group dealing with economic disruption decides that, rather than addressing its problems internally, it will blame outsiders. So the group adopts a nativist stance, looking ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist and environmentalist, launched the ...

Spain’s Vox party came in third as the mainstreaming and normalization of the far right has become a common phenomenon of 21st-century Europe In 2016, the far-right Vox party gained a mere 0.2% of the ...

Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review. At the heart of Hong Kong’s ...