Human rights reports under Marco Rubio’s State Department are about to look a whole lot worse.

The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh coat of modern cryptofascist varnish.

The free world is standing on an all-too-familiar precipice. But we’re not standing with it.

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was protesting during a City Council meeting.

Donald Trump has taken his love of lawsuits across borders—this time, to save a fellow fascist.

Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence for advocating direct action during a videoconference. It hasn’t stopped him.

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.

That’s the lesson of 2024, and John Adams thought about it a lot.

The assassination of Brian Thompson—and the reaction to it—suggests Americans are fed up and feel powerless.

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 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.

In Chicago, they found a much stronger message—and a more savage indictment of Trump.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian tells editor Michael Tomasky that we’ll save liberalism by saving democracy first.

Is the creed that’s always reexamining itself up to the task of stopping authoritarianism? In a word—yes.

America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.

We crossed another Rubicon this week with these veep wannabees parroting Donald Trump’s line about not accepting election results.

Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

A new documentary explores Robert Putnam’s life and work.

Veteran journalist Susan Glasser on why Trump’s authoritarian language is so alarming—and how the press is struggling to meet the challenges of this uniquely dangerous moment.