Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman are united by their shared ideology of censorship and state violence.
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“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.” That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory […]
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This Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, at thousands of sites around the country, are expected to draw huge numbers of demonstrators fed up with the constitutional overreach and autocratic drift of President Donald Trump’s administration. But according to some of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, something more nefarious is at work. “This is part of […]
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On Saturday, October 4, Rutgers University professor Mark Bray was sitting in his living room watching the MLB playoffs when he received an email that would change his life. Bray, a historian and author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, had recently become the subject of an online campaign accusing him of “supporting […]
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He Studies Fascism. Is He Now Living Through It? Read Post »
The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.
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Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism” Read Post »
Gavin Newsom had challenged an order to send California troops, and warned that the US is on the “brink of martial law.”
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Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.
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I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.
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I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate. Read Post »
The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids.
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Authoritarian Wave in US Shows Democracy’s Fragility, South African Scholar Says Read Post »
When New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Donald Trump of committing fraud by lying to banks and insurance companies about the value of his properties, he never really denied it. Everyone does things like this, his lawyers argued, and no bank ever lost money—so what’s the big deal? All three Trump cabinet members denied […]
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“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.
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This trope has long been used to justify repression of anarchists, communists, liberals, immigrants, and unions.
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