And yet, as Marcel Dirsus shows in How Tyrants Fall, there are still ways of bringing them down. Dirsus draws on a global range of examples to illustrate the extreme lengths to which dictators must go ...

We need to acknowledge and break the cycle of polarising social media content, fear and populism undermining democracy. You can make a difference by following three simple steps.

America, we are repeatedly warned, teeters on the edge of tyranny under Donald Trump. Commentators point to the 47th president’s populist rhetoric, plans to purge the civil service, reliance on ...

It is no coincidence that Timor- Leste ’s accession to the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is under threat by a brutal dictatorship: the criminal military regime that illegally ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.

I’m a political scientist who researches aspects of technology that support democracy and social cohesion, and I’ve observed how the design of social media platforms affects them.

Sakeik’s powerful testimony exposing the criminal character of her 140-day internment and the brutal, degrading conditions inside US detention centers has sparked outrage among workers in the US ...