Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky As if the past 16 months weren’t enough, this week I reached my breaking point. The post We Should All Be Mad as Hell About Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund appeared first on The...

Sasha Abramsky Trump’s second term is unabashedly a project of self-enrichment and oligarchic rule. The post  Trump Is Rooting Around in the Public Trough appeared first on The Nation.

Sasha Abramsky Trump is using authoritarian tactics that were perfected by Viktor Orbán. But the Hungarian authoritarian leader’s defeat may also offer a road map for beating Trumpism. The pos...

Sasha Abramsky Increasingly unpopular and facing a fracturing coalition, Trump is using government power to punish his critics, take political revenge, and revel in his own cruelty. The post A...

Sasha Abramsky The Trump brand is tarnished, and his grip over the GOP is loosening—but his authoritarian ambitions have not yet been corralled. The post Trump Is Wildly Unpopular—but He Remai...

Sasha Abramsky Viktor Orbán’s defeat is just the latest example of the administration’s European ambitions’ being stymied. The post Trump’s Authoritarian Project Starts to Take on Water appear...

Sasha Abramsky With his genocidal threats against Iran, Trump has shown the world that he is a terrorist—one with a nuclear arsenal. The post The United States Is Now an Apocalyptic Terror Sta...

Sasha Abramsky The city is at the forefront of the fight against using big tech to surveill residents. But AI poses new threats. The post San Diego’s AI Battlefield Heats Up appeared first on ...

Sasha Abramsky Give the man a second opportunity to address the nation, and it’s entirely possible he could throw the whole world into a Great Depression. The post Trump Is in His Own Universe...

Sasha Abramsky The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” The post The Rapid and “Unprece...

Sasha Abramsky If he can’t stop the bad news from happening, the least an authoritarian can do is try to stop the dissemination of that bad news. The post The Trump Administration Is Casually ...

Sasha Abramsky Republicans invent an Islamophobic threat while undermining the Constitution. The post Using Bigotry to Hide an Authoritarian, Christian Nationalist Agenda appeared first on The...

Sasha Abramsky From ICE detention centers in San Diego to the war in Iran, Trump has been trying to "defend" our country, while making the lives of many miserable instead. The post Trump’s “D...

Sasha Abramsky It was most mendacious State of the Union in US history. It was also the longest. The post For 108 Minutes, Trump Gave a Tedious Mussolini Impersonation appeared first on The Na...