Our mission is to identify and publicize authoritarian behaviors, policies, and attitudes
by Liz Ford, The Guardian, November 2018 Rising misogyny and an increase in the restrictions placed on women’s freedom worldwide mean the work of campaigners who defend their rights is more important than ever, the...
by Stephanie Chouinard/Serge MiVille, The Globe and Mail, November 2018 In the next few weeks in New Brunswick, Blaine Higgs’ Progressive Conservative Party will form the new government with the support of three MLAs from...
by Peter Bergen, CNN, November 2018 President Trump spoke to Chris Wallace of Fox News on Sunday and made a number of false claims about the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Wallace mentioned the...
by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer – NY Magazine, November 2018 Most of the public fascination surrounding the legal ordeal of President Trump has attached itself to whether (or, more accurately, how successfully) his campaign colluded with Russia....
by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer – NY Magazine, November 2018 The conservative movement has long dismissed the value of neutral expertise — environmental scientists, arms control analysts, budget forecasters, or any other meddlesome nerds who question...
by Jack Holmes, Esquire, November 2018 Trump passed over multiple Senate-confirmed officials in the actual line of succession to pick Whitaker, who’d become Sessions’s chief of staff close to a year earlier after repeatedly going...
by Sonam Seth/John Haltiwanger, Business Insider, November 2018 The White House considered extraditing one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top enemies to get Ankara to back off the investigation into the murder of the...
by Thomas Pepinsky, TomPepinsky.com, November 2018 Two years ago, just a couple weeks before the 2016 presidential election, I asked what does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections? Perhaps more than anything that he...
How is this legal? by Greg Walters, Vice, November 2018 In 2017, Matthew Whitaker went on television to explain how President Trump could appoint an acting attorney general who could effectively shut down the Russia...
Dishonesty and the use of chronic lying is classic authoritarian behavior.
