On the Saturday before Election Day this year, a coalition of scholars who study authoritarianism issued an open letter of warning titled, “How to Keep the Lights on in Democracies.” It began: ...

Students of political and philosophical concepts are required to learn the definitions of socialism, democracy, republicanism, fascism — among many others. Libraries are filled with volumes written by ...

A man with a neo-Nazi tattoo on the back of his head walks away from a "White Lives Matter" protest in Huntington Beach, California, after a physical altercation with counter-protesters. Photo taken ...

"You probably won't believe this story," future CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid wrote in the Sept. 11, 1936, evening edition of the Minneapolis Journal. Sevareid told readers about the Silver Shirts, ...

Steve Adubato welcomes Jason Stanley, author of "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future," and Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, to explore the history of ...

Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump, including Aaron Mostofsky, right, and Kevin Seefried, left, walk down the stairs outside the Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol, in Washington.

Eighteen months into Russia's all-out war against Ukraine, which left tens of thousands of people dead, many more injured, and entire regions destroyed, observers still lack the vocabulary to ...

On April 4, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Department hosted a lecture with Robin D. G. Kelley, a Gary B. Nash endowed chair in U.S. history and ...

It's commonly thought that the Catholic Church fought heroically against the fascists when Benito Mussolini's party ruled over Italy in the 1920s and '30s. But in The Pope and Mussolini, David Kertzer ...