The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points ...

BERLIN — From now on, there are no more excuses, no apologies, nothing. A good half of American voters did it again, fully aware, enlightened and well-informed: They re-elected Donald J.

GESSEN: Good to be here. DETROW ... GESSEN: Well, I think bad ideas as such actually do a lot of the work of building autocracy. And, you know, we imagine autocracy as extreme repression, as ...

But that’s just because we haven’t been looking for the right signs. Autocracy is on the rise, but it’s not happening with tanks in the streets or generals in uniform announcing takeovers on ...