dictators

Franklin Foer on Paul Manafort's Memoir

With a memoir titled "political prisoner," Paul Manafort "now places himself in the same category as the victims of rape and beatings whose suffering he was once handsomely paid to minimize."

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How History Says Trump's Cult Will End

"The other big story is that his agenda and his methods are being continued at the state level. These states are really laboratories of autocracy now, like Florida, Texas."

Too Many are Still Underestimating the Trump Threat

by Max Boot

"What has made dictators and demagogues so dangerous is their ability to pull vast numbers of people into their personal delusions — to turn their paranoid fantasies and megalomaniacal dreams into a harsh reality for millions."

'The Dictator's Playbook' looks at history, with an eye on today

The PBS documentary series provides modern-day resonance -- a guide to tyrants of the past, conveying lessons on how those tactics can be employed in the present.