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

What can one person do to secure democracy? More than you think. From civil disobedience to trolling snitch hotlines and ...

Authoritarianism in America (2018), Fathali Moghaddam’s Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty (2019), Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy: The ...

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 ...

Competitive-authoritarian governments further subvert democracy by shielding those who engage in criminal or antidemocratic behavior through captured referees and other impunity mechanisms.

A majority of Americans worry this year’s general election will be tainted by fraud, according to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released earlier this month—an ominous indication of the state of ...

Most swing-state voters (79 percent) said that representative democracy is a good form of government. Just about a third, though, said authoritarianism would be. Among the groups in those six ...

Finish story here; Authoritarianism in America: Trump, the GOP, and the Billionaire Threat to Democracy. CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is endorsing his Lietuenant Governor ...

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 ...

Folks, we’re in trouble. Our democracy is being dismantled. Authoritarianism is banging on our doors. I never imagined I would say those words. But it’s truly happening right in front of our eyes.

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.