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Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone
Venezuelan democracy, America, and the world are all going to lose
Jan 8
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Nicholas Grossman
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Trump’s Betrayal of Venezuela’s Democracy Movement Is Hard to Overstate
If he continues to snub María Corina Machado, the heroine of the opposition, America will bear responsiblity for the country’s next tragic chapter
Jan 5
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Larry Diamond
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Trump’s Bogus Rationale for Invading Venezuela Is an Impeachable Offense
The Framers would have regarded this president as an out-of-control lunatic in desperate need of reining in by Congress
Jan 3
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Andy Craig
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A Banner Year for Domestic and Global Censorship by the US
The Trump administration is using state muscle in unprecedented ways to suppress speech it dislikes
Dec 31, 2025
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Katherine Stewart
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Trump and Putin Are Trying to Rescue Hungarian Strongman Orbán from Electoral Defeat
It is unclear if they'll succeed but they show that the world's autocrats are working hard to keep each other in power
Dec 2, 2025
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H. David Baer
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Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
Nov 30, 2025
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Toby Buckle
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Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
Nov 19, 2025
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Dalibor Rohac
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Defeating Populist Authoritarians Requires Real-Time Pushback on Social Media
But liberals also need to be clear about what they stand for and deliver governing results to voters
Nov 10, 2025
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Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
Nov 8, 2025
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Shikha Dalmia
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The Failure of Macron’s Technocratic Governing Style Is Boosting the Nativist Right in France
Contrary to the French president’s aims, the cordon sanitaire that kept Le Pen’s National Rally out of the government is crumbling
Oct 23, 2025
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Marlene Laruelle
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Is a Liberal Realignment Emerging from the Rubble of MAGA Authoritarianism?
Democrats have an opportunity to champion a confident, forward-looking market liberalism given that the GOP has fully returned to its reactionary roots
Oct 8, 2025
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Michael Wood
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Can Each Side's Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
An epistolary exchange between an Islamic scholar and a rabbi points to the concept of universal empathy in their traditions as the key
Oct 7, 2025
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Michael G. Holzman
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Mustafa Akyol
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