<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: As Time Passed, the Myth Was Reexamined

What We’re Following

Populism Meets Reality: All isn’t running smoothly in the European Union. In an unprecedented move, the EU rejected member country Italy’s 2019 draft budget, calling out Italy’s “wishful thinking about growth.” But was this “wrist slap from Europe” actually what Italy’s populist government wanted?

During the Cold War, Communist countries routinely forbade and persecuted their citizens from leaving, and the U.S. opposed such policies, Now, President Trump is demanding Central American countries stop people from leaving their borders—