These motifs have been proposed as frameworks for hierarchical materials—structures where each element contains smaller substructures designed to tune specific properties. Building on this idea, ...

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Worse, Jankowicz chose to make this breathless plea at a hearing on threats from Russia, a virtual autocracy itself. The gall. “Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the ...

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Another structural weakness is that while vertical hierarchical structures are strong ... democracy . . . capable of acting as a brake on autocracy and as a bulwark against mad and bad politics”.

And, if you have any spare minutes, read or listen to some of our current, excellent journalists who are warning us about living under an autocracy, because we are almost there.

“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 ...

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 that’s just because we haven’t been looking for the right signs. Autocracy is on the rise, but it’s not happening with tanks in the streets or generals in uniform announcing takeovers on ...

In terms of China, it has clearly headed back to a greater degree of autocracy and therefore autocratic “friends” because there’s really no other place to go. China longed for admiration and ...