We obsess over whether Trump is a fascist. EPA/Federico Gambarni If we don’t, we risk missing what’s...
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Whataboutism was long so pervasive in the USSR that it became a joke among Soviets and remains...
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, by Jean-Pierre Houël / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Wikimedia...
In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), instituting various campaign finance disclosure requirements for...
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Corruption infests Trump’s cabinet. (Photo: AP/Evan Vucci) Donald Trump has only enabled “the swamp.” By Bob Burnett...
Sen. John McCain, seen in 2014, told his Senate colleagues last year: “I suspect they’ll find we...
There’s good news and bad news in parallels from the 1930s, warns Professor Margaret MacMillan, outgoing Warden...
Photo by César Astudillo, Flickr, Creative Commons Most Republican and Democratic voters not only disagree over plans...
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913 Demanding the right to vote...
Protesters hold up signs with pictures of the victims of neo-Nazi terror group National Socialist Underground in...
Still from ACORN and the Firestorm © Courtesy of Pandora Film Center | photo by Tony Azios A new...
Extremist Christian groups are coming out of the woodwork. By Alex Henderson / 07.19.2018 President Donald Trump—despite...
Registration rates for voters aged 18-29 have significantly increased in key battleground states over the last seven months...
Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Standing up to a lawless President — ruling for the Constitution — is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) His press conference with Trump in Helsinki thrilled the MAGA...
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Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
In tumultuous times like these, they have trouble gaining traction, as this example from the American Revolution...
A supporter of President Donald Trump, center, argues with a counterprotester at a rally in Boston on...
Godwin’s Law? Bring it on. EPA/Erik S Lesser Carl Schmitt rejected the Nazis, but his political philosophy paved the...
Watched by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (L) and Vice President Mike Pence, US President Donald Trump...
What are your in-groups and out-groups? ksenia_bravo/Shutterstock.com Our neural circuits lead us to find comfort in those like us...
Trump supporters featured on the Trump campaign website Rather than live with contradiction, we figure out a...
By Dr. Ed Simon / 06.17.2018 Associate Editor Marginalia Review of Books Toward the end of the Second Great...
Photo by Sansibar, Flickr, Creative Commons Taking the red pill, for both the manosphere and the radical right,...
Trump is the final fall of the founders’ presidency – the absolute antithesis of what they expected for...
A 1969 photo of political theorist and scholar Hannah Arendt. AP Photo Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, fled Germany...
By Dr. Gregory A. Daddis / 05.27.2018 Associate Professor of History Director, MA Program in War and...
President Donald Trump with televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson. AP Photo/Steve Helber In recent years, Christian television has moved into news...