The Oxford dictionary defines “demagogue” as “a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.” Merriam ...

Writer Masha Gessen (“Surviving Autocracy,” 2020) complains that the responsible media uses terms that make the outrageous sound ordinary. Gessen argues that in outrageous times, we need to find ...

During the last year of the first Trump presidency, M. Gessen wrote a book about what lessons Americans could learn from countries like Russia and Hungary. The book, called “Surviving Autocracy,” ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Masha Gessen, author of Surviving Autocracy, about the state of U.S. democracy, as House Republicans continue to... The U.S. Is Headed Away From The Ideals Of Democracy, ...

“I’ve always thought that I was very lucky to know when I had to leave (Russia) because one of the hardest decisions that somebody has to make…is figuring out when your home is no longer your home. It ...