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

Philosopher Jason Stanley and historian Timothy Snynder have sought to explain authoritarian impulses and politics in the United States and elsewhere and how to resist these.

President Donald Trump said Friday that Harvard University’s tax-exempt status will be rescinded. "We are going to be taking ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive ...

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 ...

THEY’VE had their visas revoked, been kidnapped off the street by unidentified masked agents, have disappeared to detention centres in faraway states and have been called terrorist sympathisers by the ...

Senator Lindsey Graham said the president was ‘a dark horse candidate’ after Trump joked that he would like to be Pope ...

Curzio Malaparte was the shape-shifting Zelig of the catastrophe of Italian fascism, a political and social operator of such profound equivocation that in his writings he seems almost to convince even ...

Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor and author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, is leaving the ...

Trump has held up tariffs as a negotiating tool with China and claimed talks are ongoing, but Beijing says so far there have ...

Elon Musk’s unprecedented influence over the government has brought sweeping changes to Donald Trump’s Washington.

As other prominent universities struggle with whether—and how—to please the president and avoid funding cuts, the New Haven ...