Peaceful mechanisms for defending democracy exist, but they are limited and not so difficult to overcome; it is worth taking ...

The demand for mass coordinated action has emerged not from trade union officials or politicians but from below.

Wagner Moura on his historic Oscar nomination, Brazil’s past under dictatorship and why Donald Trump alarms those who’ve ...

Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...

For 30 years, the Soviet Union was the main supporter of Cuba’s communist dictatorship, pumping into it more than $29 billion worth of money, weapons, food, oil and technology — a debt that Russia ...

One hundred and thirty executive orders in under 100 days. Sweeping powers claimed in the name of “security” and “efficiency.” One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge. No debate. No ...

Editor: How much of our rule of law are we willing to lose under Trump? Those MAGA supporters who still condone Trump and his destruction of our government, can only bring us into a dictatorship. They ...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow tried to make the case that the United States is a “dictatorship” because Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are arresting illegal immigrants. Maddow opened the ...

As the Trump administration continues to defy court orders and makes plans to deport American citizens, Stephen Colbert informed his audience on Tuesday that America is not on its way to a ...

Health disparities between Afro-Brazilians and their white peers are most severe in midlife, not old age. Growing up under authoritarian rule put these groups at a greater disadvantage than older ...

This week’s cliffhanger? “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.” In Maddow’s latest monologue, she painted Trump’s America as a police-state nightmare — “secret police” supposedly ...

President Donald Trump is poised to invoke the Insurrection Act, a measure that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military across the United States under his personal control. The plan is a ...