See why Benito Mussolini was considered a pioneer among 20th century dictators. From undermining judges to indoctrinating children, he forged key tactics for seizing power. He also created fascism ...

There's one problem with Donald Trump winning reelection: Now we, the nearly 73 million Americans who voted for the Republican presidential nominee, must brace ourselves for four years of ...

Trump is no Benito Mussolini, and the United States is not Italy in the 1930s. It's a gross insult to both to the victims of fascism and to the 73 million Americans who exercised their right to ...

Although this historical photograph and several others like it are authentic, Mussolini's participation in the harvest was staged for propaganda purposes. A viral photograph claims to show the ...

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and more," writes historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat in her simultaneously fascinating and disturbingly ominous book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Norton, 2021). "Anti-Fascists fled abroad or went ...

The Atlantic article, headlined, “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” was published Friday. “The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American ...

History’s two most famous fascists were Nazi chief Adolf Hitler in Germany and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Known as Il Duce, or “the duke,” Mussolini headed the National Fascist Party ...

ROME, Nov. 1, 1922 (UP)-Benito Mussolini, leader of the Fascistis, was only 25 when he became editor of Avanti, the official organ of the Italian Socialist Party. The war broke his belief in the ...

Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...

To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today. Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers ...