Werner Mueller explores the most common justifications that politicians offer for working with anti-democratic forces.

Normalization is easier to detect than mainstreaming, but recognizing it as a problem requires a public that is paying attention and prominent figures who would make norm-breaking a scandal, instead ...

Just like Lady Gaga, “I live for the applause.” Out of 86,400 seconds, 1,440 minutes, and 24 hours in a day, a very small portion is dedicated to handing out applause. However, I believe that clapping ...

While the alarming spike in U.S. mortality rates post-COVID appears to be normalizing, troubling trends continue.

Since Trump was reinstated in the White House, both JD Vance and Elon Musk have brought their children in front of the public ...