There was only one surprise in the vote tally for a United Nations General Assembly resolution in March condemning Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. As a wholly owned Vladimir Putin subsidiary, ...

Lest you think The Blue Period has abated, know that I am taking it slowly with Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain: The Crushing Of Eastern Europe. Ostensibly a history of Eastern Europe under Soviet rule, ...

While Orwell and Atwood have become the default lenses through which readers process political darkness, a rich parallel ...

Earlier this year, the government of Iraq, in a misconceived act of outreach to the country's once dominant Sunni community, began restoring a dilapidated monument in Baghdad. Originally constructed ...

When we follow world news – the invasion of Ukraine, the protests in Iran, the recent party election congress in China, the US Republican right’s denial of President Biden’s 2020 election victory and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump Win McNamee/Getty Images We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This ...

A few days after the election in November 2016 I had several conversations with friends who were anxious, angry, and depressed. One said that she woke up on Wednesday after the election and no longer ...

The Totalitarian Seed in Identity Politics of Race and Gender If this seems far away from our own times, there are, in fact, petty totalitarians in our midst, whose political power, if they were to ...

Modern industrial technology joined with the crooked timber of humanity to make the 20th century the most destructive century on record. Totalitarian states clashed with the free world in a titanic ...

Again, to quote Senator Tim Kaine’s recent statement on the source of human rights: “The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator...That's ...