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Characteristics of authoritarian regimes, including the manipulation of courts, elections, and law enforcement, and the suppression of independent journalism and NGOs.
A definitive shift to authoritarianism would be visible not in rhetoric alone but in concrete, institutional transformations: sustained subordination of the judiciary and electoral machinery to the ex...
Fascism does not map neatly onto a single point on conventional left–right economic spectra: historians and economists agree that fascist regimes mixed state control, private property, and market mech...
The word “fascism” today lives in two registers: a well-studied historical ideology with specific traits described by scholars and encyclopedias, and a broadly deployed political epithet used across t...
Authoritarian regimes concentrate political power in the hands of a leader or small ruling group and suppress meaningful political competition; scholars describe this core feature across typologies an...
Historians separate fascism from populism and routine authoritarianism by looking for a cluster of ideological, organizational and behavioral markers—most centrally a mythology of national rebirth (pa...
Fascist movements are a particular strain of authoritarian politics marked historically by revolutionary nationalism, violent mass mobilization, and an aestheticized cult of leader and militarism—feat...
Scholars, journalists, advocacy groups and lawmakers increasingly ask whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resembles historical “secret police,” and the reporting shows clear overlap...