When a political party gives itself wholly to one man, when it abandons its values for his persona, when it punishes ...

MSNBC Senior Contributing Editor Michele Norris and Staff writer at The Atlantic Adam Serwer join The Weekend to discuss the ...

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From there it became a question of how these cultures create totalitarian states in miniature and how that relates to authoritarian politics in general. SB: You talk a lot in the book about the ...

With ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ coming to an end, here are seven timely lessons from the TV series for resistance movements today.

We need not fear liberalism or conservatism. They’ll balance out. What history teaches us is that we really should fear two other “-isms”: authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

A hallmark of the head of a country that leans toward totalitarianism is the singling out of a group or groups of people to denigrate and put forth as inferior or to be hated in some way, and to try ...