In a post-reality environment, it turns out, the president didn’t need to wait for a crisis to launch an authoritarian ...

Gavin Newsom and federalized California’s National Guard, under a rarely used law meant to deal with “rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United ...

Gavin Newsom and federalized California’s National Guard, under a rarely used law meant to deal with “rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United ...

The solution to an unresponsive democracy is not replacing it with autocracy ... Just this year, for example, far-right members of Congress brought the government to the brink of shutdown on ...

It also serves as a reminder today that how and what we teach our students about American government and history ... of our slave-holding past, for example, is now off-limits and described as ...

Because it is the National Assembly that should show us the example of democracy, but what we see, especially from the Senate, is autocracy. “The members of the House of Representatives are very ...

Autocracy doesn’t always start with tanks ... this week to explain how Trump’s executive orders on everything from government funding to transgender people in the military reveal a familiar ...

As president, Donald Trump pretty much checks all the warning boxes for an autocrat. Last September Scientific American warned of Trump’s “nonsensical conspiracy fantasies,” that he ...