The recently released 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) from the Trump administration frames China as America's primary ...

Protesters gather to denounce President Donald Trump's behavior and policies during a "No Kings" rally in Miller Place, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz The Catholic ...

Ben Shapiro is right that “if Republicans cower before Nazi apologists and their popularizers, the GOP will lose—and deserve to” (“The GOP Mustn’t Give the ‘Groypers’ an Inch,” Letters, Nov. 5). Nick ...

On October 21, I went to the U.S. Senate chamber to ring the alarm bells about President Trump’s aggressive authoritarian takeover of our republic. I spoke through the night for over 22 hours. I ...

“What, how, when, who? Those are important questions we should ask of any technology." Stacey Abrams recognizes artificial intelligence’s growing influence on society and believes that it could become ...

A few weeks ago, I achieved at last a long-imagined pilgrimage to the home of the great Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, in Kraków. I have written often about Szymborska, who spent most of her life in ...

When I started studying sociology, the name of a book caught my attention. It was "The Authoritarian Personality," published in 1950. The lead author was Theodor Ardono, with several additional author ...

These contradictions are more than Trump’s usual practice of advancing one set of rules for supporters and another for opponents. Masking ICE agents has become part of the performative cruelty ...

The Steady State, a network of nearly 350 former U.S. Intelligence Community officials, says its members have applied the tools of their professions to determine that the United States is headed ...

Former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe” even in countries once believed to be able to withstand it. Alyssa Farah Griffin under scrutiny over ...

Is President Donald Trump an authoritarian? Over the past year, a handful of partisan Wikipedia editors have built a narrative making precisely this claim. Adversarial editors have seeded this highly ...

There is something different about America. It’s in the headlines and social media feeds and coffee shop conversations. There is a word for it: Authoritarianism. It is new for us, and like any new ...