by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 6, 2017 | Donald Trump
Quote from “Trump Is Now Raging at Jeff Sessions. This Hints at a Deeply Unsettling Pattern” article by Greg Sargent in The Washington Post. Read the full article at The Washington Post.
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 25, 2017 | Donald Trump And the GOP
Montana’s starting to look more like Moscow, after then-Republican House candidate Greg Gianforte’s assault Wednesday on Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs. As the Guardian reported and a Fox News reporter in the room confirmed, Gianforte allegedly grabbed... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 11, 2017 | Donald Trump
Once elites are co-opted to an authoritarian it can be very difficult for pragmatic reasons for them to jump ship. This is not, strictly speaking, a constitutional crisis in that it was perfectly legal for Trump to fire the FBI director. What’s at issue is the...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 2, 2017 | Forecasts
CNN.com, May 1, 2017 Sometimes political change happens suddenly. You wake up, and a military junta has taken over your country, or some other kind of revolution has happened. But other times, the climate shifts little by little. A few big gestures of aggression, and...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Apr 27, 2017 | Global Authoritarianism, Writing
Document, April 27, 2017 Creativity thrives in times of upheaval, and many of us now certainly feel the ground shifting under our feet. For the foreseeable future, we’ll be living with and governed by a “whirlwind of negativity,” as the artist Sylvia Maier terms the...
