The daily spectacle of Donald Trump and his minions striking at institutions and backstabbing allies may be depressing, but the United States is more than that. Once the fever subsides, that vibrant, ...

Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.

For anyone planning a book entitled "Totalitarianism for Dummies," last Saturday was a good day. "He who saves his country ...

Trump is going to the Supreme Court to argue for his right to fire people without saying why. Either Trump couldn’t find any ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

In a mere month in office, Trump has made it clear that he isn't only dictator in chief but capitulator in chief, a historic ...

In addition to its external enemy (once Nazi, now Communist), whose intellectual energy and economic power are primarily destructive, democracy faces an internal enemy whose right to exist is written ...

And history tells us that loneliness is an essential component for totalitarianism. This was as true in Nazi Germany as it was in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The “worst tyrannies had their ...

Discussion of attrition of democracy in post-liberation South Africa received ... top-secret document which provides the most illuminating and concise expression of the totalitarian mindset of the ANC ...

A new biography cuts through Communist Party propaganda to shed light on Zhou’s tumultuous life and the dehumanizing nature of politics under a totalitarian regime.

The Best of Reason: Cutting Off Trade Will Make the U.S. Poorer and China More Totalitarian Politicians in both major parties see the People's Republic as an economic and military threat. But the ...

Murphy wrote on X Tuesday. “In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.” A blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was a series of ...