Enter President Donald Trump who denies and ignores the rights of the courts, including the Supreme Court, to put a check on ...

In “The Third Reich of Dreams,” Charlotte Beradt collected the night terrors of ordinary Germans like herself during the ...

Its order allowing Trump temporarily to oust two tenure-protected officials bodes ill for agency independence.

Dear Daddy, You would abhor what is happening to your country. You flew 50 missions in nine months as a navigator in B17s out ...

President Donald Trump's critics often accuse him of harboring authoritarian ambitions. Journalists and scholars have drawn ...

So you want to change a democracy into an autocracy. Where to begin? Well, Justice William Brennan famously wrote that “the First Amendment is the cornerstone of democracy.” To transition to ...

President Fujimori’s sterilisation drive killed a woman in the 1990s. Her trial shows democracy is again backsliding ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called "Trump before there was a Trump." Here's why his reshaping of Hungary's ...

Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or some combination? We need not dig too deeply in the annals of history to see how and what happens when a democracy slips into ...

“But ours is not an autocracy; it is a system of checks and balances. Our Founders recognized that the concentration of power in one branch of government would spell disaster.” Trump’s ...

“The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy,” the group’s 2025 report read. It calls Donald Trump’s second inauguration following a raft of criminal ...