It is separate from the newsroom. When a political leader wants to move a democracy toward a more authoritarian form of government, he often sets out to undermine independent sources of ...

Kuwait has taken a distinctly more authoritarian direction since the accession of the new monarch, 84-year-old Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in December 2023. Asserting that he would ...

“We must remain vigilant, especially now when the threat of authoritarian rule once again looms over our nation,” Duterte said in a statement. The Duterte and Marcos families have been at odds ...

Rather than brushing off Nazi salutes by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon, columnist Cameron Smith should be writing about the U.S. being in the early stages of an authoritarian takeover by the Trump ...

Bollinger: We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. It’s been coming and coming, and not everybody is prepared to read it that way. The characters regarded as ...

Massive street protests in 2006 forced Gyanendra to give up his authoritarian rule, and two years later the parliament voted to abolish the monarchy as Gyanendra left the Royal Palace to live the ...

Women’s rights are declining all over the world — and the global rise of authoritarian regimes may be to blame, according to a new report from the United Nations. This week, the U.N. kicked ...

This made Social Credit’s brand of expert-rule a bit less authoritarian than Technocracy Incorporated’s. Yet the former party’s indictment of conventional democracy was markedly more fascistic.

To the editor: In discussing President Trump’s conflicts with the press, it may be more relevant to compare his actions, not with previous presidents’, but with the tactics of those he admires ...

If every action of Trump’s administration is labeled authoritarian, it becomes harder to recognize true dangers. For those who are troubled by his presidency or who want to assess the ...