‘Rule of the lawless’: what does the authoritarian playbook look like?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian and professor, on the contemporary threat of authoritarianism in the US

Donald Trump has glibly remarked that he would be a dictator on day one" if elected to a second term, and experts on authoritarianism say we should take him seriously.

The supreme court's ruling earlier this month giving presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution heightened the risk that Trump could follow through with that plan.