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

While the history books are still being written, 2024 was an incredibly pivotal year in world events. More than two billion ...

The laws that guide our nation, and the Constitution that undergirds our democratic system, deserve respect, a retired judge ...

One Russian-born journalist is warning that President Donald Trump is consolidating power far quicker than even Russian ...

Democrats warned that the 2024 election presented a choice between democracy and autocracy, competence and incompetence, and a government that works for all the people and one that would be dismantled ...

Is our government an autocracy or democracy? I believe that our country is now closer to an autocracy. One example of this is how the Trump administration is attacking the courts and judges. They have ...

How would you characterize the behavior of those occupying the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government? Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or ...

There's no way to sugarcoat it. There's no way to explain it away. Autocracy is on the march, and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats ...

You are on track. That brings us to the one major impediment to establishing your autocracy: the rule of law, as pronounced by the third and co-equal branch of government, the judicial branch.

That means the government holds free and fair elections ... There are good reasons to believe that a permanent slide into autocracy is harder in the U.S. than in those countries.

"The Government's arguments paint with a broad brush and threaten to upend fundamental protections in our Constitution," U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote. "But ours is not an autocracy ...

If Hungary was an autocracy, then why were its critics still ... Maybe, he said, if government ministers started to fear that his peer-reviewed articles were about to spark a revolution ...