Is President Donald Trump an authoritarian? Over the past year, a handful of partisan Wikipedia editors have built a narrative making precisely this claim. Adversarial editors have seeded this highly ...

This past weekend’s nationwide “No Kings” protests were the strongest signal yet that many Americans are concerned about their government drifting toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.

Former President Trump responded to his former White House chief of staff John Kelly — who in recent days said his ex-boss met the definition of a "fascist" and had an affinity for Adolf Hitler and ...

The current approaches to proactively counteracting authoritarianism and censorship fall into two main categories, which we call "fighting" and "Constitution-defending." While Constitution-defending ...

Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst Jesse Rhodes has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Demos Foundation, and the ...

Words matter. I'm reminded of this almost daily by a framed Nathaniel Hawthorne quote in my office that I received as a gift some years ago, which reads: "Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, ...