Centuries after “L’État, c’est moi,” Republicans are putting their own twist on the adage: “I am the state” has effectively ...

Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its inner logic.

Is President Donald Trump an authoritarian? Over the past year, a handful of partisan Wikipedia editors have built a narrative making precisely this claim. Adversarial editors have seeded this highly ...

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