“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 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.

Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

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.

Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

There are still plenty of options for leaving the USA or the UK which do not involve asylum, and we believe at the time of writing that they represent a far better choice.

"It is corruption and self dealing on a scale that we've never seen in American history."

While Trump despicably denies his duty to uphold the Constitution, let's take strength from judges who oppose his regime's illegal actions.

A new GOP majority on the state election board could overturn a state Supreme Court race

We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out

The creation of a National Defense Area marks an extraordinary shift in the military’s role from indirectly supporting law enforcement to actively serving in a law enforcement capacity.

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.