The International Trade Union Confederation has released its annual report on global rights. This year the U.S. was placed on a new “watchlist” alongside 6 other countries where there found a measurable increase in worker rights' violations.
When we look at the history of U-turns from democratic backsliding to democratic revival, the success rate is about 50% - a coin toss. But where there is active, vibrant union participation in civil resistance, the success rate climbs to over 80%.
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step. Authoritarianism is a political system that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power...
It's clear that Trump is rushing to lock in permanent power. But there is hard evidence that he may not enjoy the success that Vladimir Putin and Victor Orban did. Is the Jimmy Kimmel affair the harbinger of a failed Trumpian putsch?
By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.
Our democracy isn’t on autopilot. The machinery will not repair itself. Judges, executives, university presidents, media and tech leaders, donors, lawyers—those with some power—must join the work of defending the legal frameworks that protect us all.
To counter authoritarian drift, Democrats can’t just swap out nominees. They need to be bold.
Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American Left: “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.”
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