Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a leading expert on authoritarianism, has had to recalibrate her analysis to account for the central role of corruption in sustaining autocratic power—driven in large part by the unprecedented scale of corruption in Donald Trump’s administration.

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Former Navy Commander Bobby Jones reacts to United States backing itself into a corner against Chinese influence in South East Asia, all under the leadership of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump.

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Ken Casey, frontman for the band Dropkick Murphys, recently accompanied Ken Harbaugh on a relief convoy to Ukraine. In a special episode of The Ken Harbaugh show, the two Kens discuss the resilience of the Ukrainian people, and the importance of music and art in challenging authoritarianism.

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Former Navy Commander Bobby Jones reacts to Donald Trump's restructuring of the National Security Council and breaks down the history of American National Security strategy.

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Former Navy Commander Bobby Jones reacts to Donald Trump’s disgraceful commencement speech at West Point where he lamented on his personal grievances, trophy wives, and stealth airplanes.

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The current leadership team at the FBI—Kash Patel and Dan Bongino—is dangerously unqualified to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency. Their lack of experience and partisan agendas threaten to cripple the Bureau at a time when domestic extremism is on the rise. Extremism expert Kris Goldsmith explains just how devastating the consequences could be for the American people.

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Bobby Jones, a former U.S. Navy Task Group Commander, warns that Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on the very institutions designed to protect Americans—from FEMA to the military—pose a serious and long-term threat to our national security.

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Julie Roginsky is a former Fox News host and a Democratic political strategist. She explains that Donald Trump’s threats to investigate celebrities who did not support him is part of a larger pattern of intimidation. But with the right kind of response from Democrats, these attacks will backfire.Support

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As the Trump administration flirts with ending habeas corpus, Americans are beginning to take notice. Ken sits down with former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen to discuss the looming constitutional crisis, and how Americans should respond.

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The Trump administration's immigration policies are not only blatantly racist, they are intended to reward the white nationalists who have become some of Trump’s most committed supporters. Kris Goldsmith, Army vet and literal Nazi hunter, explains the alliance between white supremacists and Donald Trump, and offers a warning for what may be coming next.

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