Editor’s Note: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history at New York University. She is author of the book “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” and she publishes Lucid, a Substack newsletter about ...

When we think of dictators, often the image that comes to mind is of a lone strongman, whose main concern is holding power within his own borders. But Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum ...

The U.S. lost hundreds of thousands of people in world wars against tyranny. The heroes, soldiers, civilians and survivors fought to defend America.

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Protesters marched in support of public education and against the Trump administration outside the Ohio Statehouse on May 1. Samantha Madar/The Columbus Dispatch Creating a dictatorship can be a messy ...

Communists and Komsomol members handed out "Stalintines and Lenintines" – cards depicting Soviet dictators – on Valentine's ...