President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his authoritarian rule but his country beset by problems both home and abroad. By Patrick Cockburn.

A Supreme Court ruling in India has led to arrests and vigilante attacks on cinemagoers. By Soutik Biswas.

This year, Hillary Clinton actually out-sloganed Trump to become, if not the loudest, then certainly the most romantic envoy of true-blue American exceptionalism. By Suzy Hansen.

How Great Man theory allows us to abdicate collective responsibility. By Megan Carpentier.

A chorus of voices beg Obama to do something—anything—to stem potential abuse. By Kevin Collier.

The vote for Donald Trump may well have been what Michael Moore called the ‘biggest fuck-you ever recorded in human history’, delivered by the white working class to spite ‘the establishment’. But it isn’t just the size of the fuck-you that matters; it’s also who delivers it… By Jan-Werner Müller.

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Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backers are taking us. That’s why I have a favor to ask you, my fellow Americans. By Sarah Kendzior.

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all. (Apr. 24, 2007)

Alt-right leader Richard Spencer called Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions “wonderful.” By Lema Levy.

You can help historians learn how newspapers in the U.S. documented the persecution of European Jews. By Erin Blakemore (Apr. 11, 2016)

The Berlusconi years in Italy provide a blueprint to thwart a Trump dynasty. By Luigi Zingales.

Once again, President-elect Trump has chosen a top official with a history of racism and bigotry. By the New York Times Editorial Board.

A reality check for all sides. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt.

Before leaving Pulitzer Hall, the Columbia Journalism School building in Manhattan, on Election Night, I stopped by our makeshift newsroom to absorb some of the evening’s excitement. It was still early in the process; polls were just beginning to close around the country… By Ari L. Goldman.

Hate crimes after Donald Trump’s election and his appointment of Steve Bannon to the White House aren’t the way to bring America back together. By Michael Winship.

The story of the Nazis’ only concentration camp for women has long been obscured—partly by chance, but also by historians’ apathy towards women’s history. Sarah Helm writes about the camp, where the “cream of Europe’s women” were interned alongside its prostitutes, and members of the French resistance perished alongside Red Army prisoners of war.

Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy is a sobering and convincing account of how the Republicans figured out the way to gain power in the state legislatures and, as a consequence, in the federal government through an unprecedented national effort of partisan redistricting. By Elizabeth Drew.

Former ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer’s new book, “The Drone Memos,” examines the legal and lethal bureaucracy up for grabs. By Ryan Devereaux.