Facing Tyranny," executive producer Jeff Bieber and Bard College President Leon Botstein reflect on the political ...

Lisa Miller clearly comes to condemn Trump, not to praise him. Yet her polemic captures a common justification of his administration’s violent, cruel, and authoritarian ethnonationalism. This striking ...

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

The author laid the groundwork for his thesis that judges, whom he calls “the selectorate”, have toppled the people in ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy ...

As I experience the daily destruction of our democracy by President Donald Trump and his henchmen and women, I am reminded of the warning offered by Mahatma Gandhi years ago. Gandhi said the ...

Bless a book that helps you make sense of your world and where it’s headed. KQED’s Forum co-host Alexis Madrigal’s The Pacific Circuit (Macmillan, $32) is just such a book. As a child of San Francisco ...

Murphy said he believes Democrats have to make the destruction of Democracy their top issue when taking on President Donald Trump. “I believe there’s no guarantee that we are gonna have a free ...

Wolf connects this breakdown of the social contract to the rise of authoritarianism: “When capitalism no longer delivers shared prosperity and democracy no longer gives people a voice, voters turn to ...

For the last two years, the military has exercised overarching influence over government formation in Pakistan and has established a series of provisions for the institutionalization of authoritarian ...

So may this mutual respect we hold for our common humanity continue to be the moral foundation upon which to build our governing democracy. Rev Vincent Zankin, Rivett (ACT) If blue corflutes were ...

It's undermining democracy. It's our undermining peaceful protests. And it is punishing its students, which is actually technically capitulating to the Trump administration and degrading the ...