Democracy scholars say Trump is having way more success than expected in becoming America’s dictator. One reason: Too many Americans—including some Democrats in Congress—are far too complacent about it.

The president’s deployment of the armed forces on American streets is an alarming escalation. Fortunately, there’s a playbook for fighting back.

If the president can’t stamp his boot on the rest of the world, he’ll bring his violent desires back to his fellow Americans.

The announcement came as a surprise to many.

This week, the Illinois governor suggested that he’s ready to take the fight against Trump much further than his party colleagues.

The residents of the nation’s capital have long been denied their democratic rights. If Trump has his way, other cities may soon feel what that’s like.

The conservative lawyer called out the president after the FBI raid on John Bolton’s house.

The Windy City is set to be the next place the president intends to send an occupying army under the pretext of fighting crime.

Imagine if the president’s radical claims about reducing crime were actually scrutinized?

UMass Amherst journalism historian Kathy Roberts Forde says the news media has helped both entrench and erode authoritarianism in the U.S. in the past and should lean into its pro-democracy history now.

Yes, his approval rating is tanking and he’s still trying to shake the Epstein scandal. But he’s been foreshadowing this authoritarian power grab for years—and yet Democrats still weren’t ready for it.

Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., is just a taste of what he really wants.

The president’s vague plan to “federalize” the nation’s capital is best understood as a pageant of authoritarianism from an administration that’s flailing.

How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

Autocrats do not merely fade away; they have to be countered and stopped.

Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws people hate and block ones they want.

It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr had a chilling threat for all media critical of Donald Trump.

Six months in, the five horsemen of our authoritarian apocalypse are in sight. But there is still time to stop this.

An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.