Topic: authoritarian rule

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., arrives to speak to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From Ancient Rome to modern D.C.

Timothy Joseph - The Conversation
Ronald Reagan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Undoing the attack on the middle class

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
(Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Trump appeals to “fragile masculinity"

BRAD REED - Raw Story
(AP/Evan Vucci/Salon)

Trump's eroding American democracy

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Jair Bolsonaro (Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/agência Brasil/Wikimedia Commons)

Brazilian companies threaten the vote

Michael Fox - In These Times
Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson (AP/Getty/Salon)

Presidents and Americans on a free press

Jill Darling, Robert Shrum - The Conversation