by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Dec 4, 2019 | Donald Trump And the GOP, Writing
Is America becoming a 21st-century-style authoritarian state? The impeachment hearings of the last weeks would seem to provide an easy answer: no. The very fact that such an inquiry can be held, and broadcast on national television, is a sign that our democracy is...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 25, 2019 | Donald Trump And the GOP, Forecasts, Writing
GQ, July 29, 2019 To many, it felt like a threshold had been passed on Wednesday night at Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. When the president brought up Minnesota Democratic representative Ilhan Omar, the crowd chanted, “Send Her Back!...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 14, 2019 | Propaganda, Writing
The Washington Post, June 4, 2019 Since President Trump’s election in November 2016, optimists have gone on trying to reassure each other. “Our institutions will hold,” they say. Our institutions will only hold, however, if they are defended with concrete actions....
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 11, 2019 | Images Tell The Story, Writing
CNN.com, June 8, 2019 Anyone who needs confirmation that our world is in transition need only look at the images generated by the visit of President Donald Trump and his family and entourage to Great Britain, France and Ireland this past week. The clash of worlds... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jan 30, 2019 | Donald Trump And the GOP, Writing
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by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jan 8, 2019 | Global Authoritarianism, Writing
The New Republic, January 8, 2019 Scarcely a week into Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure as president of Brazil, protections for the environment and indigenous and LGBTQ populations have been removed, and both the neoliberal economic policies closely...
