Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First
One of the leading U.S. experts on fascism is so unsettled by the political climate under President Donald Trump that he’s packing up and leaving the country. Jason Stanley, a ...
Tag: Authoritarianism
South Korea’s Far Right Has Been Terrifyingly Radicalized
On April 4, South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously voted to sustain Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment, removing him from the presidency for his illegal declaration of martial law and attempted autogolpe on ...
A Dialogue With Russia’s Dark Side
What do you with former friends who end up on the dark side, who espouse political views that are anathema to you? It has never been an easy question to ...
Erdogan Is Trying to Divide and Conquer Turkey’s Opposition
On March 19, Ekrem Imamoglu—the mayor of Istanbul and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival—was detained by police in a dawn raid; he was later formally charged with corruption ...
Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan
It is hard to pinpoint exactly when Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped from the supreme self-confidence of successful politicians to narcissistic hubris. It might have been after the Arab uprisings in ...
Maduro Readies for a Third Term With Repression
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is set to be inaugurated for a third term amid anti-government protests, Brazil cracks down on forced ...
