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 ...

The survey reflects the views of over 500 of the nation’s top political scientists — experts on democracy, authoritarianism, and constitutional structure. Their message is clear: The U.S. is ...

On the surface, these seem like separate stories — one about authoritarian repression ... like public infrastructure that is essential to democracy, civic engagement and truth itself.

“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government ... These things are not meant to happen in a democracy where free speech and free expression are foundational values. Instead ...

Authoritarian movements reject the foundational principles of constitutional democracy such as separation of powers and equality before the law. Driven by radical ideologies rooted in extreme ...

If authoritarian leaders and their base frequently disparage and repress women, femme, and queer-led movements, it is because they too recognize the power of a pro-democracy feminist front in ...

For democracy to survive, it must be protected. In the past few decades, in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Poland, opposition groups pushed back successfully against leaders with ...