Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions. He packed the courts. And, once you have the courts and the legislature—and ...

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Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

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Bangladesh is in a transition phase—from autocracy to democracy. After almost 16 years of a personalistic autocracy, a popular uprising succeeded in deposing the regime in August 2024. The popular ...

His comments come as he introduces a restored version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at the Karlovy Vary International ...

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams suggested the U.S. was approaching autocracy, touting a 10-step ...

Citizens’ ability to push back against authoritarian measures is being stifled by a calculated assault on the press and a ...

While speaking at the festival on Saturday, Douglas also expressed his intense fear for the US democracy under the Trump ...

Obama spoke with Boston College professor and popular newsletter writer Heather Cox Richardson at the The Bushnell Performing ...

Democracy is in danger. Two out of three people worldwide currently live in an autocracy; 20 years ago, it was only one in two. Even in traditionally stable democracies such as the US, institutions ...