Richard Hanania is president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which funds policy research. His Substack newsletter is at richardhanania.com.

As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of ...

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Mr. Corrales is a professor of political science at Amherst College and the author of “Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism.” For years, observers have been predicting the ...

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President Donald Trump speaks as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens during a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. [AP Photo/Alex Brandon] On ...

CNN and MSNBC with a constant “The Trump Dictatorship” chyron on-screen. How Democracies Die authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt writing weekly columns in The New York Times, The Washington ...

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