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"ICE=Gestapo": Tracking the Memory of Fascism at the Olympics in Italy
When a neo-Fascist is Prime Minister, it's easier to associate state forces who terrorize citizens with Nazis rather than Italians
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What MAGA Did Not Want the U.S. Naval Academy to Hear
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Special Counsel Jack Smith's New Filing Reveals the Perils of Trump's Personalization of Power
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A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook
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The Big Lie (Foreign Interference Version), Is Back, And Now All U.S. Elections Are At Stake
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Arrests of Independent Journalists Reveal New Media Challenges to Autocrats
Control of the narrative is everything for autocrats, and yet achieving that control is more difficult today
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Militarized Masculinity from Pinochet's Chile to Trump's America
A guest essay by Lisa DiGiovanni
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The Language of Public Violence; My Conversation with the Anti-Authoritarian Experts of STROIKA
US government agents behave like Fascist blackshirts and state security forces in Turkey, Iran, and other autocracies.
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The Autocratic Rationales Behind Trump's Greenland Fixation
Plunder, Pleasing Putin, Partnerships with Technofascists, Megalomania, Corrupting the U.S. Military
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