Is the United States headed toward autocracy? That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the White House and upend long held policies and norms.

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 ...

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 ...

In an autocracy there is no safety: deals struck with power undermine credibility, only to be revoked at whim. Under such conditions, cultural leaders can stand by their principles, and the values ...

Autocracy is on the march, and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats, which has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace.