Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions.

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

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Unlike countries where democracy has recently unraveled, the United States displays at least six exceptional traits that are protecting it from the Trump-led assault: a robust network of advocacy ...

The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.

Evan Osnos on how the rise of the ultrarich—and their increasing detachment from reality—could be the downfall of democracy.

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

Meet the man who has been advocating to replace American democracy with an all-powerful monarchy — and who has the ear of some of the most important people in Washington and Silicon Valley.

“249 Years of Freedom, Courage, and Democracy!” — On July 4, the United States marks its Independence Day, celebrating nearly ...

America in a post-American world.

Instead, Stewart uses her deep familiarity with the American far right to chart out what are, by the mid-2020s, the major elements of Trump’s political project, which she describes as the ...

The New Far-Right Coalition That’s Out to Destroy American Democracy “Money, Lies, and God” argues that the failed January 6 insurrection didn’t discourage those who want to dismantle the ...