Adolf Hitler

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.

Giles Tremlett tells the story of the foreigners who joined the first line of defense against fascism in Europe.

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War.

How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency.

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger.

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

Dearborn, proud home of Henry Ford, has addressed the auto pioneer's anti-Semitism in the 1920s, which flourishes today on extremist websites.

Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism. Still, we are witnessing a story that's unlikely to have a happy ending.

Nazi Germany has closer ties to America and its history of institutionalized racism than some may think.

What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our own post-truth times?

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

The not-so-sweet history.