Covering domestic abuse, I’ve learned that an absolutely standard hallmark of abusive relationships is that abusers treat compliance w/rules as a test of power: they make rules, they don’t follow them nbcnews.com/politics/congr… I think that explains so much about other dynamics too, including uproars over "PC culture": people feeling like complying with someone else's rules is a sign of low status or weakness, & freaking out

I've talked to a lot of political scientists over the years about how strongmen and dictators really get ousted.

The answers were very consistent: If elites abandon a an authoritarian leader, he's done. If they stand by him, he can probably survive.

https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1349123660225933313

The statement from Cheney, along with McConnell's apparent support for impeachment, is a sign that at least some crucial GOP elites are abandoning Trump.
I'm not sure what to make of the fact that it's so public and messy, though.

In the UK, despite early warnings about domestic abuse during lockdown, the government failed to provide desperately needed emergency help. @jane__bradley and I spent months reporting the unfolding catastrophe: nytimes.com/interactive/20… Lockdown meant that people in abusive relationships were trapped at home with controlling & dangerous partners or other family members, cut off from work, friends and support networks.

ICYMI, @max_fisher & I conducted a monthslong investigation into how YouTube radicalized Brazil. What we found was truly shocking. It made me reconsider what I thought I understood about online radicalization:
nytimes.com/2019/08/11/wor… @Max_Fisher Something that really blew me away was that even some within that super-online right-wing movement are afraid of where YouTube is leading the country. They warned us about the “dictatorship of the like”: the ways YouTube encourages politicians to pander to online rage