How Palantir and the Trump Administration Are Building a New Digital Panopticon “Big Tech, including Palantir, is ...

German judges swore an oath that reflected the spirit of the democratic Weimar republic: “I swear loyalty to the Constitution ...

Free speech is under siege in America at a level not seen since the McCarthy era. President Donald Trump has launched a multipronged attack on speech rights designed to help him wield authoritarian ...

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

During a recent virtual town hall by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Senator Cory Booker discusses the psychology of what makes the public turn to political strongmen and authoritarians.

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 ...

The authoritarian playbook ... they are often too late to turn back the totalitarian tide due to the capture and intimidation of civil society and the instruments of government.

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.

Last week, Hungary banned Pride marches. But similar moves were also characteristic of 20th-century authoritarianism and its extreme form, totalitarianism. There is no need to reach for historical ...

unyielding embrace of authoritarianism. Under the GOP, the creation of the totalitarian subject—shaped by regressive values, stunted agency, and a warped sense of morality—intersects with a ...

Timothy Snyder is a Yale professor of totalitarian European history and ... like you or maybe less privileged than you.” Experts in authoritarianism insist that Trump’s dictatorial threats ...

The American academia from which I recently retired is not an overwhelmingly authoritarian institution ... vociferous enemies interpret him: as a totalitarian. Many things that had always been ...