Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. @anneapplebaum on how democracy is losing the propaganda war:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYVa-wnrnqgxXca7MIpKv_ms&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Antonio Gramsci

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gramsci/

Chess grand master turned politician Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen of Lithuania tells Garry Kasparov that Europe must do more to support Ukraine against Russia, especially as America takes a step back.

Listen to the latest episode of “Autocracy in America”: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/08/resilience-face-russian-aggression/683960/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYeW4nSOOfdghJvte6yawSjA&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Robert Reich

Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history

Robert Reich

Aug 23, 2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-worst?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Pulitzer Prize winner Caitlin Dickerson speaks with @davidfrum on ICE’s explosive growth, Trump’s detention surge, and the future of U.S. immigration enforcement.

Watch the full episode of “The David Frum Show” here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/08/david-frum-show-immigration-caitlin-dickerson/683931/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYSKDUlIoLKem6vH-kKzqDdA&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Boy Who Cried Hoax

Alternative facts have become alternative realities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/trump-gabbard-russia-hoax.html?smid=em-share

The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump

The president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-intrusion-lincoln-roosevelt.html?smid=em-share

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

“The Trump administration ranks among the most intrusive in American history, driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.”