Joseph Stalin

In theory, the Durham Report and the testimony of FBI whistle blowers was to be about the internal conduct of the FBI. But it also underlines the failure of the Pulitzer Prize folks.

MSNBC's All In host Chris Hayes lamented on Thursday that when people think of authoritarians, they tend to think of people like Stalin or Mussoulini and not “Mr. Pudding Fingers” because for Hayes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s education, abortion, Disney, and drag show policies are all hallmarks of “authoritarianism.” However, the worst bit of so-called authoritarianism to come out…

WASHINGTON – How people understand history largely depends on who writes it and from what perspective. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, has received what might be called a raw deal from historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Steele Commager, among others. They created a caricature of Coolidge that includes blaming him for the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the year after…

As with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines to advance an evil agenda. The Nazi propaganda effort was headed by Joseph Goebbels to whom the term “The Big Lie,” meaning if one…

As Russia wages unilateral war on Ukraine, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is rightly seen by most everyone as a malign force, including the New York Times. But the Times hasn’t always aligned against history’s dictators and strongmen. While one of the Times’ most common charges against former President Donald Trump was his alleged soft spot for authoritarian leaders…

As the crisis in Ukraine escalates, threatening Europe and the world, journalists and media outlets have rightly and consistently highlighted the cruel aggression of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin. However, the same outlets that now showcase the horror of an attempted restoration of the Soviet Union gushed about its glory days as the USSR collapsed

The hypocrisy is blatant: While Big Tech giants Twitter, Apple, Facebook, etc., are gleefully banning the sitting president and prominent conservative activists from public platforms while simultaneously using their monopoly power to squelch competition (the free-speech Twitter alternative Parler), the New York Times breezily compares Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that the election was, for the most part, "an absolute repudiation of the Democratic party brand." He warns Democrats that if they don't change course away from their left-wing positions, Republicans will have a "huge" year in 2022. He quotes a Dem congresswoman who says that if Dems don't stop talking about "socialism" and "defund the police," they will…

Between another week of the coronavirus pandemic, Attorney General Bill Barr’s Hillsdale speech, the release of Bob Woodward’s book, and town halls for both candidates, it was a week ripe for things to the perpetually-unhappy ReidOut host Joy Reid to bemoan and whine about President Trump, his supporters, and anyone who disagrees with Reid’s far-left worldview in the worst possible…

Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx's life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx's death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. Most people who call themselves Marxists have only read his 1848…

There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant's first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities —  such as the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg to…