But what is authoritarianism, and would a second Trump administration really impose it on the United States? “The Authoritarian Playbook,” a report released in 2022 by the nonpartisan organization ...

(RNS) — Americans who hold Christian nationalist views are also likely to express support for forms of authoritarianism, according to a new report, pointing to a possible link between those who ...

Democrats keep warning that if Donald Trump gets a second term he will be an authoritarian president. They also claim his first term was authoritarian. Trump did once attack the Second Amendment by ...

We’re living in a time of growing appeal for authoritarian leadership, at home and abroad. For those who crave democracy and freedom, this attraction can be extremely challenging to understand. What ...

Social dominance and authoritarianism are two interrelated constructs that help explain why individuals and groups uphold hierarchical social structures and cling to rigid norms. Social dominance ...

The death of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, will have far-reaching implications for his homeland and for the world. While it stifles the voice of democracy in Russia and bolstered ...

Authoritarianism in politics arises from a complex interplay of individual dispositions, group identities and situational threats. Individuals high in authoritarian predispositions tend to seek clear ...

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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