Timothy Snyder, Yale historian and author of "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom," talks with Rachel Maddow about how citizens resist the autocratic tendencies of leaders like Donald Trump.Jan. 21, 2025 ...

The Village Voice surveys a selection of books and online resources that map out resistance to Donald Trump’s racist and authoritarian goals.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made a series of allegations of sexual abuse, rape and voyeurism perpetrated against herself and ...

The New Yorker magazine is 100 years old this week. Its editor David Remnick talks about the role of longform journalism in ...

Instead of brigades of men with guns storming government buildings, President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are deploying ...

M. Gessen won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

In one of my recent articles in this publication I mused about the fate of the arts under a future democratic or Trumpian ...

A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale ...

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

So maybe you've heard: the Super Bowl is this weekend! And you've probably also heard: President Trump will also be there! Oh ...

Autocracy depends in large part on conformity of thought, which explains Donald Trump’s focus on K-12 education during the ...