One of the most immediate consequences of reduced attention to other conflicts is the worsening humanitarian crisis. Funding ...

YEARS ago, a well-known Silicon Valley billionaire told me something I’ll never forget: “China is an autocracy, Europe is a technocracy, and America is a company.” Since Donald Trump was re-elected ...

During her 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly attacked Donald Trump as an authoritarian who ...

1) Do not normalize. When the autocrat’s speech and behavior are outside the norm and are unacceptable, say so.

Surveys show that Trump’s supporters don’t just tolerate his autocratic tendencies. They positively like them.

We’re in a conflicted period of apathy and imperial decline, alternating with working-class rage and then aggressive lunges, like supporting Israel’s expanding bloody wars.

Americans have re-elected Donald Trump, choosing a convicted demagogue who champions power over principle. This historic turn raises a sobering question: Is the West’s beacon of democracy slipping ...

Despite the middle class's reputation as a champion of democracy, Bryn Rosenfeld argued that in these countries, the middle class itself favoured autocracy, citing a mutually beneficial arrangement ...

Primers on environmental activism and a series on resisting autocrats offer a chance study up for the bumpy years ahead.

Though chosen by one of today’s political parties, autocracy is neither conservative nor liberal. It’s not on that ...

We are poised to relive that whole plunge into scientific darkness. Forget about Mars, folks, we are headed back to ...

I met with a government official preparing to resign and told him I was writing a book about the rise of authoritarian nationalism. “The nationalism in the U.S. and Europe is somewhat different,” he ...