The term “fascism” is increasingly used to describe the agenda and actions of the current Russian state under Russian President Vladimir Putin. Today’s use of this label has three dimensions ...

Additionally, fascism utilizes state control of industries and the control of free speech so that individuals are restricted from speaking ill of the government. The ideology of fascism exists today, ...

Fascism is precisely an anti-ideology, and Trumpism does have specific ideological contours: Whatever you think of immigration restrictionism, ... Putinism is mild fascism.

An essay in last week’s Economist establishes that Putinism is fascism: a simmering stew of grievances and resentments (about post-Soviet diminishment) expressed in the rhetoric of victimhood ...

Successful fascism was not about policies but about the strongman, the leader (Il Duce, Der Führer), in whom could be entrusted the fate of the nation. ... Today, there is Putinism, ...

Fears of sackings, arrests, and purges abound. Talk of fifth columns is pervasive on state media. Rumors swirl that the Soviet-era institution of exit visas may make a comeback. And wary of ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Oliver Bullough write that Western leaders ignored Putin's bad behavior as long as Russian money flowed in. Flight 17 changes all that.

The term “fascism” is increasingly used to describe the agenda and actions of the current Russian state under Russian ...