Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump kicked off America’s 250th Independence Day celebrations with a speech at Mount Rushmore that centered on patriotism, anti-communism, and the upcoming midterm elections. Speaking beneath…
By Flint Taylor This article was originally published by Truthout Prosecutions of anti-ICE and pro-Palestine protesters are part of a broad effort to crack down on dissent. In March of…
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence…
Brad Reed for Common Dreams Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this…
The street battles against the abuses by ICE are the front lines of our struggle to prevent the consolidation of the police state. Chris Hedges NEWARK, N.J. — The worst…
Les Leopold Substack How the hell did we get to a place where we are worrying about fascism taking control in America? Let’s start with Trump getting elected twice. How…
Joshua Scheer For decades, 60 Minutes stood as one of the last surviving institutions of broadcast journalism willing to challenge power, confront corruption and occasionally remind Americans what reporting looks…
Western societies aren’t drifting into authoritarianism, Mattias Desmet argues — they’re sleepwalking into it. In this wide‑ranging conversation, the Belgian psychologist behind The Psychology of Totalitarianism dissects what he calls…
Joshua Scheer The Associated Press has surfaced yet another episode in the ongoing normalization of federal power being turned inward—this time aimed not at activists, whistleblowers, or dissidents, but at…
Joshua Scheer When Donald Trump told a radio audience that there is “something wrong” with the “genetics” of Muslim immigrants, it did not land as an accidental slip, nor as…
Intro by Tom Engelhardt, Article by Juan Cole Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016, announced that “regime change is a proven,…
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
By George Yancy for Truthout Back in 2016, I was asked what I thought about Donald Trump. Even back then, I saw him as an aspiring fascist, and I responded:…
By Joel Westheimer for Truthout lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking…
Posted by Joshua Scheer I have reported this time and time again, and it bears repeating: where are our so-called “leaders”? As democratic norms erode in real time, we are…
