![]() ![]() ![]() In his new book After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, Rhodes documents his three years of world travel, speaking with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism that has been tearing America apart. ![]() After the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, Ben Rhodes, a former White House aide and close confidant to President Barack Obama, sought to discover why nations have been opting for populism and tyranny over democracy. Now, 30 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, political scientists have observed a global rise in authoritarian governments-even in America itself. After the Cold War, America sought to protect as many democracies as possible and stamp out any threat of authoritarianism around the world. ![]()
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