Tag: authoritarianism
To watch fascist propaganda promoted by a prominent Republican like Giuliani, once a presidential contender and now a close adviser to the president, is chilling indeed.
How does Putin's government deal with Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader apparently poisoned while behind bars? Toss him in prison again, of course.
“The power of the Congress to conduct investigations is inherent in the legislative process,” as the Supreme Court held in the 1957 Watkins case.
President Donald Trump’ authoritarian instincts have long been transparent. But as his presidency stretches on, he’s figuring out how to take those instincts and apply them to the powers he has — consolidating power within ...
With his casual usurpation of Congressional powers, Trump has once again proved that he poses a clear and present danger to the Constitution.
Suddenly, the Erdogan regime is brutalizing these elderly mothers who have protested for years in Istanbul -- out of pure dictatorial spite.
Yale historian Timothy Snyder, who studies regime change in authoritarian societies, warns that the American people now have "about a year" to defend democracy in the United States from the threat posed by the Trump ...
"If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, ...
Timothy Snyder, a Yale scholar and an authority on European political history, has spent decades studying the rise of fascist movements. With the ascension of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, Snyder sees echoes from ...
When Trump commingles racist nationalism with what sounds like socialism by promising a wall to keep out Mexican rapists, a cornucopia of jobs, and full healthcare for Americans, we might recall that “Nazi” was an ...
