During the interwar years, support for revolutionary, anticapitalist parties by the Soviet-led Communist International laid the groundwork for the expansion of communism after World War II. Following ...

This two-step strategy has helped other countries halt democratic backsliding. It can work in the U.S. if we act quickly.

The ‘No Kings’ protests have been important, but smaller, more sustained acts of resistance have proven successful in other ...

Selfishness is not in the idea of living your life the way you want to live; selfishness is more in the way that we want others to think in the same way and hold the same opinion. Authoritarian ...

The game, however, is far from up. The fact that the United States has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism does not mean that its democratic decline has reached a point of no return.

(THE CONVERSATION) Hungarian leader and strongman Viktor Orbán, who presided over the radical decline of democracy in his country, is scheduled to meet with former President Donald Trump, now the ...

Authoritarian: favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. Mussolini once stated, “pluck a chicken one feather at a time ...

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When it first appeared in 1950, The Authoritarian Personality was primed for classic status. It ran to just under 1,000 pages. Its publisher, Harper & Brothers, had brought out Gunnar Myrdal’s An ...