Australian police conducted a raid on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, and has caused worry on the state of global press freedom. A new Freedom House report titled “Downward Spiral” goes into detail on the erosion of press freedoms.
Marion Maréchal — previously known as Marion Maréchal Le Pen — quit politics last year and dropped her famous last name, but she hasn’t dropped her focus on giving the far-right a boost. Maréchal’s latest endeavor has been to start a school aimed at training the ultra-conservative elite in France.
2018 saw populist political movements drive leadership crises in France, Germany and the UK. The World asks Francis Fukuyama, author of “The End of History,” to focus on identity politics and ginned up divisions in those countries and here in the US.