Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, ...

I was reminded of such instances of “extraordinary rendition” in the Bush-Cheney era when I read about the Trump administration’s March 2025 deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego García to a grim ...

The world is watching, and history will judge our response. Let us ensure that the EU’s actions reaffirm our collective ...

I’m calling out news organizations as our country is on the verge of autocracy led by the most corrupt, traitorous regime under DT. Disinformation has become the bane of our society. Thanks to ...

There was a time when a meeting between the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel brought only pride to both Israeli and American Jews, who saw two democratic leaders ...

In this webinar, Professors Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky will discuss what can be learned from mobilization and opposition to autocracy in the United States based on historical examples, and ...

And voilà—America's chief constitutional bulwark against autocracy dissolves. For those who, against all evidence to the contrary, dismiss these ambitions as mere delusions, that's exactly what ...

For example, Brown University’s Open Curriculum ... and its schools will graduate students who can offer little or no defense against autocratic rule. Bob Kustra served as president of Boise ...

In the March 27 Letters column, John Saurer (“US socialists wrongly label Trump the dictator”) puts Donald Trump in a similar category with Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush ...

“If you look at people who have resisted these autocratic legal developments, there has been a combination of strong collective action ― with strong action by the legal profession and by the judiciary ...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, in Maryland, Feb. 22, 2025 (DPA photo by Annabelle Gordon via AP Images). There was a lot going on in the ...

And, if you have any spare minutes, read or listen to some of our current, excellent journalists who are warning us about living under an autocracy, because we are almost there.