Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, writes in this Vox opinion piece that Americans have a "fantastical" and "cartoonish" image of authoritarianism, while life for people living in authoritarian countries is similar to the daily life of many Americans.
"Living in Malaysia and working on Malaysian politics has taught me something important about authoritarianism from my perspective as an American," Pepinsky writes. "That is, the mental image of authoritarian rule in the minds of most Americans is completely unrealistic, and dangerously so."
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
