Thirteen legal groups bankrolled by dark money are urging the Supreme Court to kneecap federal agencies’ ability to take on corporations — a strategy to strip agencies of their power to protect ...

The historian, On Tyranny author and recent Toronto transplant has studied dictators for decades. Even he doesn’t know what comes next.

Early in American history, James Madison, the chief architect of the Constitution, warned that when the federal government ...

Reading Robert Ferguson’s fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation ...

Israel’s parliament passed a law increasing the role played by politicians in selecting judges, including to the Supreme ...

On 2021, acclaimed Filipino journalist Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize (alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) in unprecedented recognition of the role of journalism in today’s world.

Syria was poised for liberation. Instead, ethnic violence, sectarian dogma, and unchecked power are threatening to turn ...

Law-and-order conservatives who hang on every word from any black-robed deity called a “ federal judge,” are aiding and ...

He and a small number of other German Protestant leaders gathered, calling themselves the Confessing Church. They issued the ...

From Snyder’s On Tyranny to modern authoritarian trends, historians explore the critical lessons from the 20th century ...

Nature of freedom It’s not clear what freedom has become in the twenty-first century. So many claim it, but so few understand ...

The Sicilian Agathocles, a man not only of obscure but lowly and abject origins, became king of Syracuse. The son of a potter ...