Tag: Fascism
When Trump unleashes his racist attacks on public figures of color, it provides direct support to the most repugnant of the white supremacist movement.
In Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism, Robert Kuttner refreshes the tradition of political economy for our era -- and connects worsening inequality with the rise of fascist movements.
A nation that has given the world some of its greatest art, literature, philosophy, culture, cuisine, and couture now seems poised to endorse fascist politics -- but only, warns Danziger, if the French are too ...
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 ...
Steve Bannon just can't help himself. The president's chief strategist, and former executive chair of Breitbart News, has repeatedly cited fascists and white supremacists without compunction or even discretion.
In a rare show of unity, all 100 U.S. senators this week issued a public letter urging the Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security to protect Jewish institutions and prosecute those responsible ...
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 ...
We must view Trump as a real threat to our institutions, to our democracy, and to our future. The Trump presidency and Trumpism is a new phenomenon in our country’s history. Never before has such ...
It’s too soon to tell what will become of the alt-right. While the alt-right is ready to capitalize on Trump’s win, the question is whether it will destroy itself in the process.
Throughout the campaign, comparisons of Trump to fascist leaders have been treated as unserious and even irresponsible. Now, as we watch him assemble a cabinet of frightening far-right nationalists, white supremacists, militarists, and free-marketeers, Eco’s ...
