In this issue

What Propels the Global Authoritarian Surge and How We Can Fight Back by Meena Jagannath and Nikki Thanos

As compounding global crises highlight the growth of authoritarianism across countries, Meena Jagannath and Nikki Thanos discuss how to identify the breadth of the crisis—and how to effectively organize to fight back.

A Global Trail of Violence: India’s Hindu Supremacist Movement and Its Role in the Transnational Far Right by Savera

PRA’s newest partner, Savera: United Against Supremacy, reports on the violent, far-right Hindu supremacist movement behind Modi’s government.

Putin’s “Year of the Family”: How Russia Revives and Reverses U.S. Cold War Rhetoric by Irina Smolevskaya

In her commentary, Irina Smolevskaya scrutinizes Putin’s appeal to “traditional family values” as a reversal of U.S. Cold War containment rhetoric appealing to domestic and transnational conservatives alike.

The Anti-Gender Movement: How the Global Right Aims to Dismantle the United Nations by Zoë Schott

At the United Nations, the U.S. Christian Right has ramped up its campaign to push anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ policies across agencies and topics, further advancing a global anti-gender agenda.

From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign: The Institutional Policing of Dissent by Habiba Farh

In this commentary on the state’s use of the “outside agitator” narrative to violently repress progressive movements, Habiba Farh examines how “the powerful choose authoritarian control” to secure their rule over democratic challenges to their legitimacy.

Beyond “Border Security”: Reframing the 21st Century Border Crisis Narrative by Ethan Fauré

Ethan Fauré discusses U.S. immigration politics and considers how two books, The Case for Open Borders and My Fourth Time We Drowned, challenge “border crisis” narratives.

The “Business-as-Usual” of Right-Wing Climate Realism by Ajay Singh Chaudhary

This excerpt from Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book, The Exhausted of the Earth, discusses the Right’s “climate realism” and who benefits from the extractive economic system that fuels climate change.

Conspiracy / Theory: Author Q&A with Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco by Annie Wilkinson

PRA's Annie Wilkinson interview authors Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco about their new book, Conspiracy / Theory, which asks its readers to critically consider the stigma around conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking in a world of growing authoritarianism. 

Art of Activism: Vicky Shahjehan

A Q&A with Fearless Collective ambassador Vicky Shahjehan on solidarity and the role that art plays in activism.