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The nonfiction best-seller list in early 2018 included “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic” and “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.” ...

For the last 10 years, we’ve been hearing that President Donald Trump will preside over the end of democracy in America. In liberal circles, that assertion is often accepted as fact. For many, the ...

Steven Levitsky’s “How Democracies Die” became a surprise best-seller during Trump’s first term. “We are currently witnessing the collapse of our democracy,” Levitsky says. Levitsky and a fellow ...

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As President Trump marches us into authoritarianism, we wonder what exactly is happening and what we can do about it. A well-written book on the subject is the New York Times best-seller "How ...

As a young boy, I spent a fair amount of time in the wilds of Indiana in the company of older men. I was in awe of their experiences, but I had my suspicions that some of their stories stretched the ...

In the days after Donald Trump's reelection as president, Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky was despondent. "I was in the fetal position," he said. "I just wanted to put on sweatpants, eat ...