List of Theory articles
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Federal officers stand guard after dispersing protesters in Portland, Oregon, on July 21. In Portland, the Baby Fascists Have Shown Their Face
Fascism can happen in America. Some of it has already happened, and more will happen as Trump fights to stay in power.
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Italy’s Benito Mussolini addresses a crowd in Rome on April 15, 1934. Why Fascists Fail
History’s autocrats have been the architects of their own demise. Even if he seizes power, so will Trump.
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Anne Hidalgo, the incumbent mayor of Paris and member of the French Socialist Party, celebrates after winning the second round of the French Municipal elections in Paris on June 28. Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua via Getty Images Is France’s Socialist Party Back From the Dead?
As Macron’s luster fades in local elections, Socialist leaders are planning a return to national politics—in alliance with the Greens.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Bibilov, the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, shake hands prior to their meeting in the Kremlin. Our Top Weekend Reads
Russia is consolidating its foothold in Georgia, Canada’s new brand of populism, and China’s repression of the Uighurs is a genocide.
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Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Is Sri Lanka Becoming a De Facto Junta?
In under a year, Gotabaya Rajapaksa—the former defense secretary-turned-president—has bent the democracy to its breaking point.
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Spectators sit on top of a pillar at the World War II Memorial in the National Mall as fireworks explode in Washington, D.C., on July 4. What American Century?
Those who worry about—or cheer—its demise don’t realize that there never was one.
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US President Donald Trump attends the UN Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, 2019 at the United Nations Headquaters in New York City. Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
Two cheers for a classic idea that’s been out of fashion for too long: state sovereignty.
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Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump wearing “QAnon” t-shirts wait in line before a campaign rally at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Oct. 1, 2018. QAnon Goes to Iran
Restart, a fringe Iranian dissident group, shows how conspiracy spreads—and what that means for U.S. politics.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford shakes hands at the end of a government session in Toronto on April 11, 2019. Populism Isn’t Always Xenophobic. Just Ask Ontario’s Premier.
Doug Ford is challenging conventional wisdom by utilizing a more inclusive and malleable brand of populism. And it’s working for him.
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Charles Lindbergh (left), with R. Douglas Stuart Jr., the founder of the America First Committee, when the flyer enrolled as a member in Chicago in 1940. Pacifists Are Vulnerable to Fascism’s Whispers
Principled anti-war movements are in danger of being co-opted by opportunistic authoritarians.
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A tattered American flag blows in the winds of Hurricane Dennis in Mobile, Alabama, on July 10, 2005. The Anti-American Century
The old U.S.-led order has crumbled. What will replace it may be just what the world—and the United States—needs.
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French Finance Minister Emmanuel Macron gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on Jan 22, 2016. The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed
The future has rarely seemed bleaker for free-market democracy—but small changes can bring it roaring back.
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A view of the campus of Harvard Business School. Our Top Weekend Reads
Britain is becoming like America, the Egyptian government is facing pressure on social media, and sending international students home could undermine U.S. soft power.
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Members of the Broadway cast of 'Hamilton,' perform music from the production for President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and other guests in the East Room of the White House on March 14, 2016 in Washington. Does ‘Hamilton’ Have All the Answers for U.S. Foreign Policy?
The Broadway musical offers lessons on everything from regime change to balancing ideals and interests.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for an Independence Day event at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota on July 3, 2020. Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech Is the Closest He’s Come to Fascism
The world just lost its leading historian of fascist ideology. The late historian Zeev Sternhell would have recognized the president’s lies as propaganda in the tradition of Mussolini.
