The similarities between Trump and strongmen from Mussolini to Bolsonaro are impossible to ignore.

How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

Three fascism scholars explain why the term remains taboo in American culture—and how that must change.

Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past?

Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse.

Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.

What Saddam Hussein’s romance novels and Kim Jong-il’s film criticism reveal about authoritarianism.

On the left and the right, commentators are playing fast and loose with references to totalitarianism.

The president is taking conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint. Is there any way to stop him?

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.

Many mental health professionals believe the president is ill. But what if the cause is an untreated STD?

The top adviser is providing a coherent political philosophy for the president's scattered ideas.

Hatred often hides behind a mask of jokiness.

The paranoid style in American politics has its roots in a deep insecurity.

A history professor explores the ways Nazi symbols and rituals influenced Christmas celebrations in the Third Reich.

Spotify’s secret social network