President Trump prosecutes his political opponents; deports immigrants, including some here legally, to foreign prisons ...
University of Denver political scientist Seth Masket explains why scholars are so alarmed by some of Trump’s recent moves.
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Mussolini won early support from the large landowners of the Po Valley, and came to power at the invitation of King Victor Emmanuel III; Hitler allied himself with the army and big business to win the ...
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Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy

The change could make it easier to repeal limits on [fine particulate matter and ozone] from coal-burning power plants, oil ...
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A Horseshoe Theory of Trump

A fter the inauguration of Andrew Jackson, in 1829, thousands of his supporters poured into the White House to celebrate. The crowd overwhelmed the staff and trashed some of the furniture before the ...
Our January issue included a feature story by the political scientist Maria J. Stephan, “When Catholics Confront ...
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate.
The GOP’s open embrace of authoritarianism is,” he said, “the most important fact of the American political system.” Way believes that the United States has been functionally authoritarian since March ...
Everyday acts of solidarity and resistance offer proof that authoritarianism can still be confronted — and beaten.
In recent years, Israeli democracy has been steadily darkened, its light dimming. The elections of November 2022, which ...
Kasonde, speaking at the same event, described Bill 7, now Act Number 13 of 2025, as an example of what she termed legal authoritarianism.