Once constrained by grown-ups in the room, Trump now surrounds himself with suckups. The result? A perfect storm of immaturity, cruelty, and power…

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

“As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

But sure, let's have a parade!

At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition.

To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

The Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.