It’s the go-to phrase for Democrats, accusing President Trump and anyone who supports him as “fascist.” Their favorite insult, thrown around like so much confetti, makes it hard to figure out which ...

Fascism is one of the most notorious forms of government, famous for being the government of choice for history’s worse dictatorships. A lesser known fact is that many of these countries had ...

Fascism seems to be all the rage these days. I’ll give you a few examples. Ben Rhodes, who was President Barack Obama’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications (a title ...

Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse. “You can’t define it as good or bad,” Caio ...

The rise of fascism has alarmed political scientists globally. Fascism is defined as “an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government.” Fascists reject democracy and liberalism as ...

The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed fascism. Polarized politics and ...

To the editor: Nicholas Goldberg defined fascism as “a terrifying totalitarian movement that plunged the world into an era of near-cataclysmic violence.” Isn’t the sordid spectacle of the recent ...

Twenty-first-century fascism is the dictatorship of big money. Finance, fossil fuels giants, other large corporations, and the military-industrial complex, have effectively merged with the state, ...

Conservatism used to mean the conserving of traditions within a particular community. It emphasized maintaining the long-tested practices of a community. But today’s conservatism is a type of market ...

Left fascism is a reality, not an oxymoron (letter, May 25). Fascism, as a regime, does not exist today. However, fascist methods of suppressing opponents by using violence against them did not ...