“Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly ...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Watch Speaker Gingrich discuss his series here. Read the first in the series here. The current crisis did not ...

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that an advantage of America's federal system of government is that a state may “serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic ...

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed on The Five, Monday, that if President Donald Trump had acted sooner on the coronavirus, the media would have accused him of “despotism.” “Look at what the media’s ...

This article first appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations site. As the Philippines ushers in the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, the longtime mayor of Davao, the country is poised for dramatic ...

Despotism and secrecy are not restricted to the corridors of Congress, state legislatures or city halls. Despotism is alive and flourishing where you wouldn’t expect to find it--in homeowners ...

America is at a crossroads. We are about to decide whether we continue as a democracy or live under a dictatorship. The Heritage Society is working with Donald Trump on Project 2025, a 900-page ...

We are now so jaded about the Affordable Care Act that it has lost the ability to shock us. News of its 38th delay in implementation is stirring up outrage from all the predictable quarters, but ...

The objective of the American Founding was to break free of the old despotism, characterized by the arbitrary will of the stronger, based on force and fraud, masked by the false claims of long ...

Throughout American history, several crucial moments have defined our country's trajectory. The War of Independence, the Civil War and the fight against slavery, both World Wars, and the Cold War have ...

In 1991,Yevgeny Arye, a prominent Moscow stage director as well as a member of the Russian Academy, decided to emigrate to Israel. When they heard his plans, about a dozen of his Jewish students ...

Despotism has become our new normal. We have become desensitized to government brutality, accustomed to government corruption, and unfazed by the government’s assaults on our freedoms. Subscribe to ...