Hello everyone, As you may have noticed, we have shifted from weekly to monthly updates for the Threat Index. We will publish more often...

Gerrymandering has been in the news this week, raising an important issue for understanding democratic decline. Consider the simplest...

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/ Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer, former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and now a law...

We are making targeted adjustments to the Militarism and Foreign Aggression  rubric to improve clarity and consistency. Scoring Trump and...

Fascism can be selectively deployed against specific populations in specific places. The genocide of Native Americans and the institution...

"It is a constitutional crisis when our constitution and our politics come apart." More particularly, a constitutional crisis is when...

In law, we talk about "brightline" rules. These are rules that are clear and easy to follow, unlike, for example, balancing tests where...

Authoritarianism, totalitarianism, fascism, dictatorship, autocracy, kleptocracy, oligarchy, broligarchy, this list goes on. These words...

https://adamprzeworski.substack.com/ Adam Przeworsky has been writing and publishing a daily diary since the second inauguration of...

One of the toughest challenges in scoring current political developments using our index is distinguishing between what has  happened,...