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The Dark End of the Street

A Substack about living under authoritarianism and the compromises and corruptions that result

By Andrew Gumbel

· Launched 9 months ago

The lesson in the age of Trump is clear. Better to go down swinging than to try to appease the man – and most likely go down anyway.

Who needs an autocrat to undermine democracy when we have the U.S. Supreme Court?

What the Bard can teach us about Trump's increasingly clumsy attempts to bend reality to his will

If the US Holocaust Museum can't denounce the president's genocidal ravings, what is it even for?

In the midst of a Middle East war going rapidly awry, the president's bombastic DC makeover is another unearned victory he's anxious to declare

Donald Trump’s inability to wage war and pay attention at the same time echoes a certain other historical figure who let the seductions of military…

How the Trump era is squeezing artists, and what France under Nazi occupation can teach us about pushing back

On flattery, bribery, and the perils of giving the people what they don't want