If you can stomach reading one more article about Trump and the craziness inside the White House in his last days, this should be it. The level of detail is remarkable. Jonathan Swan’s source must have been in the Oval Office when all this action took place. Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval…
From Professor Timothy Snyder’s latest piece in The New York Times Magazine: “Like historical fascist leaders, Trump has presented himself as the single source of truth. His use of the term “fake news” echoed the Nazi smear Lügenpresse (“lying press”); like the Nazis, he referred to reporters as “enemies of the people.” Like Adolf…
By Sylvia Taschka, Wayne State University Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself, who had earlier warned of the troubling nature of such…
After right-wing terrorists stormed the US Capitol, apparently intent on assassinating Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress eventually returned to their chambers and the business of certifying the 2020 election results. Despite the harrowing experience of hiding for their lives from the Trump-incited attack, “two-thirds of House Republicans (139 members) favored rejecting at…
By Austin Sarat, Amherst College The state of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, may face a political crisis brought on by President Donald Trump’s continuing efforts to undo the 2020 election results. On Nov. 19, the president invited Republican lawmakers from Michigan to the White House, apparently to pressure them to…