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Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

In the most non-controversial and basic sense, the rule of law means formal legality. The law binds citizens and governments. When it comes to nation states, law is enacted by democratically elected legislatures; legal statutes are openly available and sufficiently clear to follow. State actions can be judicially reviewed for…

Experts link the right's "DEI hire" attacks to a dark history of racist political violence

In a new book, left-wing writers debate whether America is going fascist.

"We have a classic fascist situation in this country right now," according to the author of “How Fascism Works”

"Do better," critics urge after the Times buried Trump's alarming "vermin" rhetoric

Prosecutors allege the former president and co-conspirators used lies to advance criminal conspiracies to overturn the election. Scholars say distant and recent history show how potent lies can be.

“Propaganda depends for its effectiveness on the presence of flawed ideological belief,” writes the philosopher Jason Stanley in How Propaganda Works. Politicians cash in on this prior ideological belief already present in people to push through the narrative they want to.

Bigotry against minority groups based on sexual orientation or gender identity is a way fascism takes root