While a disciplined effort to impose authoritarianism on U.S. society would be immensely dangerous for the future of the ...

Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat spoke on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” about one particular appeal that President-elect Donald Trump had for some voters that resulted in his decisive 2024 election ...

Things may change if he and his colleagues decide to abandon attempts to centralize power in his hands or if America’s ...

Rhetoric about Democratic shortcomings discounts Trump voters' agency and their desire for him to be President ...

In western Germany, support for xenophobic statements has risen significantly and is now approaching attitudes in the east.

The Conversation US launched as a pilot project in October 2014. It is an independent source of news and views from the ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced on Wednesday a nonpartisan state-level initiative ...

Peng Chenliang reportedly left China after seven months imprisonment over anti-Russia and pro-Taiwan social media posts.

With every hour that passes, Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination grows tighter. Every ...

Frankl knew a thing or two about living through a time of rising authoritarianism. A Viennese Jew born in the early 20th century, he was a budding psychiatrist and philosopher when he was sent to the ...

No one who watched Alexei Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous ...