Philosopher Jason Stanley and historian Timothy Snynder have sought to explain authoritarian impulses and politics in the ...

In the most non-controversial and basic sense, the rule of law means formal legality. The law binds citizens and governments.

While too many American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are (finally) calling a fascist a fascist.  Jason Stanley, a fascism expert who publicly announced his ...

Robert Paxton is one of the world’s foremost scholars of fascism and in his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism (Bookshop), he ...

Democrats are frustrated with party leadership for their response to Donald Trump's disruptive second presidency, but some ...

In 'Words of War,' Maxine Peaks stars as Anna Politkovskaya, the daring journalist whose efforts to uncover the truth of ...

Part one of the series can be found here. Let us come up the rough side of the mountain. After writing 'Embracing the Repression,' I was asked about how to make courage contagious. After mulling ...

They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a ...

I appreciate John Kaufman’s right to express his opinions in his letter (online April 22). Disappointingly, he failed to ...