Major Media Outlets Barred From White House Briefing

Jacob Sugarman / Truthdig Feb 25, 2017 The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and several others are denied access. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Just to Be Clear

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Mainstream Media’s Wimpy Coverage of Inaugural Address Was No Surprise

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jan 24, 2017 Does the age of Trump signal a new era of McCarthyism—or worse, an American brand of fascism? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Normalizing Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Not an Option

By Henry A. Giroux / Tikkun Daily Jan 23, 2017 For lawmakers, pundits and journalists, "normalization" is code for a retreat from moral and political responsibility—and it should be viewed as complicity. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Is Creating ‘a Framework in Which Authoritarian Leaders Assert More Power’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2017 Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, analyzes the president-elect's troubling attitude toward the media. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Courage and Hope in the Age of the New Authoritarianism

By Henry A. Giroux / CounterPunch Dec 28, 2016 Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated during the election include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism? Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

Will Donald Trump Make ‘1984’ Seem Like a Nursery Tale?

By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Dec 26, 2016 I suspect we're about to have the screw-you presidency of all time, far surpassing George Orwell's vision. And believe me, that will prove to be dystopian beyond compare -- or do I mean beyond despair? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

By C.J. Polychroniou / Truthout Nov 14, 2016 Chomsky warned years ago that the US was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian Now he speaks about the election, the state of the U political system and the threat Donald Trump poses to the world. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

The Media Buy In to Donald Trump’s Authoritarian America

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Feb 22, 2016 Now that he has bullied his way into the mainstream, it’s time for the media to take a serious look at his policies and the dreadful consequences they would have if he occupied the Oval Office. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

VIDEO: ‘Stunning’: Turkish President Erdogan Tightens Grip in Election Amid Violence and Fear

Staff / Truthdig Nov 2, 2015 Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development Party has regained its parliamentary majority, helping President Erdogan strengthen a hold on power that critics say has become increasingly authoritarian and divisive. Patrick Cockburn, The Independent’s Middle East correspondent, comments. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Oct 23, 2015 A kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults take on the role of unthinking children while children are subject to a range of disciplinary pressures that saddle them with debt and cripple their ability to be imaginative. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

The Plague of American Authoritarianism

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch Aug 24, 2015 It is too easy to believe in a binary logic that categorizes a country as either strictly authoritarian or strictly democratic, and leaves no room for the possibility of a mixture of the two. American politics today suggests a more updated if not different form of authoritarianism. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )