The U.S. is "not an autocracy," Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote in her ruling. " It is a system of checks and. balances." ...

Elizabeth Shackelford is senior policy director at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding and a ...

Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat said this weekend that President Donald Trump ’s use of billionaire Elon Musk to ...

The world needs to act to inoculate ourselves from the slow burn effect of a world made safe for autocracy rather than ...

The USCC made clear that the “axis of autocracy” is at heart a set of transactional relationships. Of the four autocratic ...

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS) ...

Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last ...

On Wednesday, professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat spoke to more than 80 attendees ...

But that’s just because we haven’t been looking for the right signs. Autocracy is on the rise, but it’s not happening with tanks in the streets or generals in uniform announcing takeovers on ...

Global freedom and democracy have been declining for two decades, reaching historic lows, according to two reports just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Freedom House. To those of ...