Nadia Toolkonova was sentenced to prison in Russia when she was only 22 years old. She is a founding member of a punk band whose name you have heard me say uncomfortably several times now on this show. Uh Nadia Toakonova is a founding member of the group Riot uh for staging a musical anti-Putin protest at an Orthodox cathedral in Mosc Moscow.Nadia and two of her bandmates uh were charged in 2012 with hooliganism. It look like hooligans to you. They were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.Miss To ...

We've apparently entered the lame duck news cycle. It's an old playbook reflexively referring to a president's second and presumably last term and writing about it as the so-called lame duck period. Headline after headline now frame Donald Trump as a lame duck.A term meant to convey a president not seeking reelection who will remove themselves from power after the next election with diminished authority and waning influence over the government, its institutions, and their own party. A president acting like ...

As thousands of protesters took to Donald Trump's backyard yesterday, calling for his impeachment, Trump was already reeling from a week where his legal losses were mounting on numerous fronts, both presidential and personal. An appeals court rejected Trump's efforts to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN. A federal judge ruled Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Washington DC was illegal.And another federal judge ruled that Trump likely violated the law when he tried to cut millions of dol ...

The heavy-handed response by Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum to dissent will bolster the opposition’s charges of authoritarianism, says @JPSpinetto (via @opinion) https://t.co/PrToCZ6R3r ...

Um the thing about authoritarianism, Alacia, is it cannot exist in that petri dish um when people have agency, >> right. So, and it cannot exist and people don't have agency when they're isolated. So, all of the things that are bull works against what are some really sizable steps toward authoritarianism that Trump has made that we've all covered here, um were delivered a decisive blow.It's it's this engagement that you and Jacob both covered yesterday um out um in places where people were voting and they t ...

The New York Times editorial board is out with an expansive interactive piece this morning asking this question. Are we losing our democracy. In it, the editorial board lays out 12 benchmarks of what it calls democratic erosion from the stifling of disscent to the persecution of political opponents.The editorial board argues that the United States has regressed on all 12. The piece concludes this way. The United States is not an autocracy today.It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary and ...

Okay, joining us now, Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan. She's a member of the Armed Services Committee and um with one of the things that you wanted to talk about today is uh the No Troops in our streets act and that comes upon u more news on that front. Tell us about it.Yeah, I mean I look yesterday I just felt the need to lay out um sort of popping a flare on the authoritarianism that we are seeing and the playbook that is being run by the president whether he knows it or not. Um, and one of ...

How do you view and make sense of of all of this on that spectrum. >> Well, it's been a very much like a kind of a slow authoritarian creep by Trump. You know, they have been fairly selective.Uh they have been moving in a slow but deliberate manner. Uh it's sort of like the vampires in the movie Sinners where you know mild spoilers for that movie you know for the first half of the film you know life is continuing as it as normal even though the vampires are out there they're hurting people and then suddenly ...

Core Ideologies - Free-market policies are intellectually grounded in the works of Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, and Joseph Schumpeter [1] - These thinkers advocated for the diffusion of power, competition, and individual freedom [1] Safeguards Against Authoritarianism - Diffusion of power, competition, and individual freedom are presented as safeguards against authoritarianism [1]

“Donald Trump is copying Xi Jinping’s methods without achieving the Chinese leader’s broader aims,” argues the analyst. “What America is getting is authoritarianism without the good stuff” https://t.co/RFoXcbYDCr ...