Trump is destroying US democracy at unprecedented rate, global watchdog finds
“[T]he speed of decline is comparable to some coups d’états,” a global democracy watchdog wrote.
Authoritarianism & Fascism
The dark rise of America’s monsters
Bombed boats, dead fishermen, starving children, and broken families reveal the human cost of power without empathy …
The most dangerous moment is when authoritarians seem to compromise
Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman.
But the Nazis did not have Fox or Twitter
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made this last decade and even more so in the last year is believing that listening to Trump voters — friends and family, but also strangers — would bring us to a mutual truth. That listening would make a difference. That I would learn from
Once again, under the shadow of authoritarian power, Americans must decide what kind of nation we will become
Will we stand with the generations who expanded freedom through resistance and sacrifice — or surrender self-government to fear, force, and authoritarian power?
In the midst of the news flood, can you see the forest for the trees?
Is there an overarching strategy behind all this?
Why has ICE turned Minneapolis into a battlefield?
Thom Hartmann exposes the point of it all.
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act and deploy military in Minnesota
Law intended to “repress insurrections and repel invasions,” which the administration asserts is happening in the state
2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the global stage
The Trump administration is unraveling three key components of U.S. foreign policy
Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’
It’s the modern-day version of the “Ministry of Truth”
Should I stay or should I go?
A reality-based assessment of where Trump’s power grab stands — and where it’s going
