His second term has been driven by long-standing priorities of the conservative movement.

The party has been struggling to respond to Donald Trump’s return. But the chance to grill one of the president’s worst Cabinet selections seemed to revive their fighting spirit.

Much like despots before him, Trump is rewriting history to justify some of his worst plans.

The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

The returning administration is full of free speech warriors—the kind that crush dissent and dissenters.

The vice president has shrewdly started using Trump’s own words against him, raising the salience of his authoritarian streak and righting her media strategy ship along the way.

The right to criticize the powerful is a cornerstone of democracy. In Trump’s America, it’s cause for a prison sentence.

The Democrats’ new “freedom” rhetoric on reproductive rights isn’t just playing well with the public, it’s also a broader defense of individual liberty against would-be authoritarians.

The Heritage Foundation blueprint has become absolute poison for Trump, who has been desperately trying to run away from it. Which is exactly why Democrats and liberal groups have to work to keep it alive through Election Day.

J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light.” The rest of the book outlines an even more troubling vision.

As Trump ramps up the derangement in two new appearances, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on strongman rule, decodes his speeches to reveal the authoritarian impulses at their core.

Donald Trump’s strongman image is a plus for many voters.

On daily life in a fascist America

Why have attacks on gender expression proven such a powerful tool for authoritarians?

From praise for Hitler and Mussolini to friendships with Putin and Orbán, open adoration for authoritarians is a defining feature of the American right.

Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

If we wake up to awful news on November 6, we’ll be asking ourselves one question: Did we do enough?

Democrats had better start making the all-too-obvious case that a return to Trumpism would do untold damage to a vulnerable world.

Chaos and corruption are on the rise, the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians to claim control.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality. This next election may determine which one prevails.