Opinions

Apr 29, 2017

Le Pen, Putin, Trump: a disturbing axis, or just a mutual admiration society?

Jon Henley

The Guardian
Apr 23, 2017

Why Putin and Trump both like Le Pen

Dean Obeidallah

CNN
Apr 15, 2017

Kremlin on the Potomac: Trump’s White House makes Americans into strangers in a strange land

Chauncey DeVega

Salon
Feb 20, 2017

Trump is more like Putin every day

Ann Telnaes

The Washington Post
Feb 17, 2017

In Trump era, censorship may start in the newsroom

Jim Rutenberg

The New York Times
Feb 18, 2017

Our Putin

Susan B. Glasser

The New York Times
Feb 18, 2017

Trump’s news conferences look a lot like Putin’s. Should you worry?

Hannah S. Chapman

The Washington Post
Feb 15, 2017

Donald Trump is suddenly looking like a very weak autocrat

Greg Sargent

The Washington Post
Feb 10, 2017

The Gist Podcast: Oh, how this feels like Moscow

Julia Ioffe

Slate
Feb 9, 2017

Former Russian foreign minister sees parallels between Trump and Putin

Sarah Stuteville

The Seattle Times
Feb 9, 2017

Russians who once protested Putin have this advice for Americans troubled by Trump

Anastasya Manullova

Huffington Post / World Post
Feb 8, 2017

How Trump enables democracy’s decline

Lawrence J. Haas

U.S. News & World Report
Feb 7, 2017

Trump should praise Vladimir Kara-Murza — not Vladimir Putin

Robert Berchinski

Foreign Policy
Feb 7, 2017

Trump’s dangerous lie about Russia

Joe Scarborough

The Washington Post
Feb 6, 2017

Trump’s refusal to condemn Putin as a ‘killer’: It has nothing to do with Russia

Julia Ioffe

The Atlantic
Feb 6, 2017

We can’t let Trump go down Putin’s path

Michael McFaul

The Washington Post
Feb 7, 2017

Trump has become Putin’s ally in Russia’s war on the West

Edward Lucas

CNN
Feb 7, 2017

Blaming America first

Editorial Board

The New York Times
Feb 5, 2017

Trump’s radical anti-Americanism

Adam Gopnik

The New Yorker
Jan 31, 2017

Want to understand what Trump and Bannon are up to? Look to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Anastasia Edel

Quartz
Jan 31, 2017

How to build an autocracy

David Frum

The Atlantic
Jan 26, 2017

Never underestimate the staying power of autocratic rulers

Daniel W. Drezner

The Washington Post
Jan 25, 2017

Evan McMullin makes a splash by going after Trump and Putin

Jennifer Rubin

The Washington Post
Jan 24, 2017

The Trump-Putin parallels pile up

Leonid Bershidsky

Bloomberg
Jan 25, 2017

The styrofoam presidency

Masha Gessen

The New York Review of Books
Jan 23, 2017

Is American democracy strong enough for Trump?

Francis Fukuyama

Politico Magazine
Jan 20, 2017

An impulsive authoritarian populist in the White House

John Cassidy

The New Yorker
Jan 23, 2017

I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump

Alexey Kovalev

The Guardian
Jan 20, 2017

Why the most important phrase in Trump’s speech might be ‘civilized world’

Jonathan Chait

New York Magazine
Jan 18, 2017

We are the last defense against Trump

Daron Acemoglu

Foreign Policy
Jan 18, 2017

This is the most ominous Inauguration Day in history

E.J. Dionne

The Washington Post
Jan 16, 2017

With all due disrespect

Paul Krugman

The New York Times
Jan 13, 2017

A warning to the American media from a Russian journalist who covers Putin

Alexey Kovalev

Quartz
Jan 11, 2017

The Trump dossier is silly – except for one thing

Charles Lane

The Washington Post
Jan 9, 2017

Donald Trump cashed in on the right’s Putin man-crush — but the yearning for a dictator has been there for years

Heather Digby Parton

Salon
Jan 7, 2017

The 1987 TV miniseries that predicted a Russian takeover of America

Bill Scher

Politico Magazine
Jan 6, 2017

Putin and the Populists

Ronald Brownstein

The Atlantic
Jan 5, 2017

America’s abdication

Yascha Mounk

Slate
Jan 4, 2017

Donald Trump: Making the world safe for dictators

James Traub

Foreign Policy
Jan 1, 2017

Trump’s mysterious attraction for Putin betrays a strong authoritarian streak

Alonzo L. Hanby

History News Network
Jan 1, 2017

A year to protect democracy

E.J. Dionne

The Washington Post
Dec 28, 2016

The most powerful men in the world

Masha Gessen

The New York Review of Books
Dec 20, 2016

Trumpcast: Putin’s meddling. How Vladimir Putin subverted American democracy and other fears of the Trump-Putin alliance.

Jacob Weisburg

Slate
Dec 19, 2016

Donald Trump, this is not normal!

Charles M. Blow

The New York Times
Dec 19, 2016

How republics end

Paul Krugman

The New York Times
Dec 17, 2016

Arguing the truth with Trump and Putin

Masha Gessen

The New York Times
Dec 14, 2016

Putin, Trump and the West’s new ideological alliance

Ishaan Tharoor

The Washington Post
Dec 13, 2016

The Putin Paradigm

Masha Gessen

The New York Review of Books
Dec 9, 2016

Russia and the threat to liberal democracy

Larry Diamond

The Atlantic
Dec 9, 2016

Misunderstanding Russia

Chris Stirewalt

Fox News
Dec 9, 2016

Donald Trump’s shiny Marxism

Jonathan Chait

New York Magazine
Dec 7, 2016

Trump is already implementing an autocratic foreign policy

Jeet Heer

The New Republic
Dec 5, 2016

Trump’s threat to the Constitution

Evan McMullin

The New York Times
Dec 4, 2016

A warning for Americans from a member of Pussy Riot

Jim Rutenberg

The New York Times
Dec 2, 2016

Brexit, Trump, Le Pen and the rise of the right: the anger goes global

The Independent
Dec 1, 2016

After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over

Charles Krauthammer

The Washington Post
Dec 1, 2016

Trump may want to learn a thing or two from Kazakhstan’s dictator

David Filipov

The Washington Post
Nov 30, 2016

Note to Trump: even Putin’s Russia doesn’t punish dissent by seizing citizenship

Zack Beauchamp

Vox
Nov 29, 2016

Trump’s challenge to American democracy

John Cassidy

The New Yorker
Nov 22, 2016

Manuevering a new reality for U.S. journalism

Nic Dawes

Columbia Journalism Review
Nov 24, 2016

Trump a strongman in the making?

Trudy Rubin

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov 23, 2016

10 ways to tell if your president is a dictator

Stephen M. Walt

Foreign Policy
Nov 23, 2016

How journalists need to begin imagining the unimaginable

Eric Umansky

ProPublica
Nov 21, 2016

American fascism: Lessons from Russia

Eliot Borenstein

Huffington Post
Nov 18, 2016

Dictators around the world will delight in Trump’s victory

Brian Klaas

The Guardian
Nov 17, 2016

The ‘us and them’ divide worked for Putin and it will work for Trump

Leonid Ragozin

The Guardian
Nov 15, 2016

What a Trump America can learn from a Berlusconi Italy

Beppe Severgnini

The New York Times
Nov 15, 2016

Protect democracy first

David Leonhardt

The New York Times
Nov 13, 2016

Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it.

Margaret Sullivan

The Washington Post
Nov 12, 2016

Autocracy: Rules for survival

Masha Gessen

New York Review of Books
Nov 11, 2016

Harry Reid is right: Trump is still an authoritarian hatemonger until he shows us otherwise

Greg Sargent

The Washington Post
Nov 10, 2016

Trump’s election threatens human rights around the world

Editorial Board

The Washington Post
Nov 9, 2016

Donald Trump has broken the Constitution

Garrett Epps

The Atlantic
Nov 8, 2016

Trump: The autocrat’s preferred choice

Karim Sadjadpour

The Atlantic
Nov 8, 2016

Samantha Bee went to Russia to investigate what a regulated media looks like. It’s a nightmare.

Caroline Framke

Vox
Nov 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s candidacy is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid

Ezra Klein

Vox
Nov 7, 2016

Russia & Trump: joined by trolling, hatred, and an endless desire for vengeance

Mark Sumner

Daily Kos
Nov 7, 2016

Dictators everywhere are stumping for Trump

Sebastian Strangio

Foreign Policy
Nov 7, 2016

A Donald Trump presidency presents a grave threat to the press

Michael Calderone

The Huffington Post
Nov 7, 2016

A final plea: The case against Trump’s dangerous authoritarianism – in one chart

Greg Sargent

The Washington Post
Nov 7, 2016

Donald Trump’s success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy

Ezra Klein

Vox
Nov 6, 2016

On the fears of a Donald Trump presidency

Raghida Dergham

The Huffington Post / World Post
Nov 6, 2016

Conservatives shouldn’t trust Trump with their votes, or the Constitution

Doyle McManus

Los Angeles Times
Nov 5, 2016

Imagining America on Nov. 9

Editorial Board

New York Times
Nov 4, 2016

Economics and democracy: The last vote

Buttonwood's Notebook

The Economist
Nov 4, 2016

Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality

Jason Stanley

New York Times
Nov 4, 2016

Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses

Anne Applebaum

Washington Post
Nov 4, 2016

America is more fragile than you think: A former Marine Corps officer on why voters must defeat Donald Trump

Jake Cusack

Quartz
Nov 3, 2016

Former CIA chief: Trump is Russia’s useful fool

Michael V. Hayden

The Washington Post
Nov 7, 2016

Russia & Trump: joined by trolling, hatred, and an endless desire for vengeance

Mark Sumner

Daily Kos
Nov 2, 2016

Here’s what citizens who vote for authoritarians have in common

Amy Erica Smith and Mollie J. Cohen

The Washington Post
Nov 1, 2016

Pussy Riot’s Nadya: Trump ‘should be disqualified’

Phoebe Lett

The New York Times
Oct 31, 2016

Trump and Putin share a frightening worldview

Editorial Board

The Washington Post
Oct 30, 2016

The foreign leaders who are rooting for Trump

Jackson Diehl

The Washington Post
Oct 30, 2016

Trump’s allergy to history

Trudy Rubin

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Oct 29, 2016

America, your election is not rigged

Garry Kasparov

The New York Times
Oct 28, 2016

The plot against America or the plot by America?

Mustafa Akyol

The New York Times
Oct 24, 2016

The world’s worst authoritarian leaders have realized nostalgia is way more powerful than fact

Peter Pomerantsev

Quartz
Oct 21, 2016

Does Hitler’s legacy still cast shadow over the world?

Mark Mardell

BBC News
Oct 20, 2016

Trump never wanted to be America’s president; he wants to be its czar

Michael D'Antonio

CNN
Oct 20, 2016

Donald Trump, the anti-democratic candidate

Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The New Yorker
Oct 18, 2016

The Russians worried about Trump

Anna Nemtsova

Politico Magazine
Oct 14, 2016

Donald Trump’s dangerous ploy to destabilize democracy

Editorial Board

The Washington Post
Oct 14, 2016

How dictatorships are born

Roger Cohen

The New York Times
Oct 13, 2016

Trump has no regard for rule of law

Trudy Rubin

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Oct 10, 2016

Jailing Hillary?! Trump’s outrageous case for dictatorship

Keith Olbermann

GQ Video | The Closer
Oct 11, 2016

Trump’s strongman aspirations

Nayyera Haq

CNN
Oct 10, 2016

A preview of a despot

William Saletan

Slate
Oct 7, 2016

Vladimir Putin is bringing back the 1930s

George Will

The Washington Post
Oct 6, 2016

Remembering a journalist who was killed for standing up to Putin

Carl Gershman

The Washington Post
Sep 25, 2016

Looking for a Trump metaphor? He’s an autoimmune disease

Lucia Graves

The Guardian
Sep 24, 2016

A strong Putin has meant a weak Russia. Trump’s America would be no different.

Scott Gilmore

The Boston Globe
Sep 21, 2016

A U.S. election of global consequence

E.J. Dionne

The Washington Post
Sep 21, 2016

Two ex-spies and Donald Trump

Thomas Friedman

The New York Times
Sep 20, 2016

Trump keeps acting like an apprentice to Putin

Chris Edelson

MarketWatch
Sep 15, 2016

Why the conservative admiration of Putin is dangerous

David Harsanyi

The Federalist
Sep 16, 2016

America the Plunderer

Timothy Egan

The New York Times
Sep 14, 2016

Putin’s post-factual politics

George Will

National Review
Sep 13, 2016

Who’s better for his people: Putin or Obama? The answer is obvious.

Max Boot

Los Angeles Times

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