Fascism

Donald Trump attends the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 26, 2025. in Farmingdale, New York.

Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown

Too easily dismissed as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is being used as a weapon to destroy domestic opposition.

Sep 29, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

Alex Han of In These Times and Tarso Luís Ramos speak about the vital role of worker organizing in an age of growing authoritarianism.

Aug 5, 2025 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine perform as part of a free concert at Finsbury Park on June 6, 2010, in London, England.

MAGA Followers Think They’re Punk Rock—but Then Why Are They All Such Cowards? MAGA Followers Think They’re Punk Rock—but Then Why Are They All Such Cowards?

Trump supporters may think they’re hardcore, but they seem to be afraid of op-eds, books, and history they can’t even bear to read.

Apr 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025

Trump’s Great Big Fascist Gaslighting Show Trump’s Great Big Fascist Gaslighting Show

Trump, his minions, and El Salvador’s president teamed up to tell a string of obscene lies about the innocent man they sent to a gulag.

Apr 15, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

In this April 14, 1964, black-and-white file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign reading, “More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala,” demonstrate in front of an Indianapolis hotel where then–Alabama Governor George Wallace was staying.

Trump’s Presidency Reminds Me of the Segregation and Jim Crow of My Youth Trump’s Presidency Reminds Me of the Segregation and Jim Crow of My Youth

The xenophobic, bigoted, and cruel policies of the Trump administration are bringing back traumatic memories of American racism and all the nightmares that went with it.

Mar 6, 2025 / Douglas H. White

A graphic representation of what the Minocqua Beer super PAC billboard will look like when it goes up on January 28.

A Meteorologist Was Fired for Describing What We All Saw: “Dude Nazi Saluted TWICE” A Meteorologist Was Fired for Describing What We All Saw: “Dude Nazi Saluted TWICE”

A Milwaukee TV station dismissed Kuffel after she called Elon Musk’s gestures Nazi salutes on her Instagram page. Her community is not letting her firing stand.

Jan 27, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Trump’s Not the Only Top Republican Whose Fascism Is Showing

Trump’s Not the Only Top Republican Whose Fascism Is Showing Trump’s Not the Only Top Republican Whose Fascism Is Showing

Former Vice President Henry Wallace warned eighty years ago about the threat posed by politicians like today's GOP leaders.

Oct 31, 2024 / John Nichols

Supporters of former president Trump hold a rally on April 6, 2024, in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts? Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts?

The proliferation of pro-Trump militia groups across the country eerily echoes the rise of Hitler’s SA and Mussolini’s squadristi.

Sep 5, 2024 / Bob Dreyfuss

Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine

Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

Sep 3, 2024 / Feature / Barry Yourgrau

New Popular Front deputy Gabriel Amard speaks at an NFP rally.

What the US Can Learn From the French Left What the US Can Learn From the French Left

The New Popular Front bloc denied the far right a victory by doing things the Democratic Party consistently fails to do.

Jul 29, 2024 / Harrison Stetler

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