It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night. It happened in broad daylight — in the heart of an ...

Two letter writers call out the Trump administration for it's attempts to silence critics and muzzle the free press in ...

It has become quite clear that the co-equal balance of power, of our three branches of government, is under attack by our recently elected President. The Legislative Branch (at least ...

Last week’s developments unfortunately follow a well-established pattern. For over a year, the UW administration has dealt ...

Readers respond to a guest essay that warned of authoritarianism in America. Also: Shame on the lawyers; euphoria over Pope ...

How today's dictators are forging powerful global alliances to weaken democracies from the inside out.

That is another story, and another example of how autocratic rule can be imposed not by a sudden military takeover, but by a process which starts with a “constitutional” transition, and can then go on ...

This common cause, to save our precious country from autocracy, binds us as friends and patriots. On the national scene both heartening and disheartening news reaches us through the media.

Rachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's push toward autocracy, and notes that unlike ...

Other examples include tax and energy bills, wages, and products sold in installments. Almost every business deals with this timing mismatch between when things happen and when money changes hands.