Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump Win McNamee/Getty Images We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This ...

The one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's reelection and return to power prompts a question: is the United States sliding toward fascism or are we already there? That the question is now asked so ...

In an authoritarian state, the leader engages in unconstitutional or undemocratic practices for the purpose of consolidating power. Key components of authoritarianism include rejecting democratic ...

Not all coups change a country in an instant. Some are a slow-boil process of subversion that nonetheless leaves the institutions they affect unrecognizable. Journalist Talia Lavin has spent her ...

A hallmark of the head of a country that leans toward totalitarianism is the singling out of a group or groups of people to denigrate and put forth as inferior or to be hated in some way, and to try ...

I saw a picture this week. It’s of a scene in Washington, D.C., taken a few days ago. In the background, you see the Department of Labor building. Hanging on its right side is a large American flag; ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His appetite ...

President John F. Kennedy tells the American people that the U.S. is setting up a naval blockade against Cuba, during a television and radio address, on Oct. 22, 1962, from the White House. The ...

The political conditions in the United States today are similar to the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany in the 1930s. But Christopher Browning, an expert on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, wouldn't ...

From a historical, socio-political angle, what we are witnessing now in the U.S., stemming from what has been labeled "Trumpism" by some political scientists, is not new. The intimidation and ...