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 ...

Launched under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Kuwait's new monarch, Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the policy claims to target foreigners who illegally obtained Kuwaiti citizenship – ...

Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy restricts almost all political rights and civil liberties. No officials at the national level are elected. The regime relies on pervasive surveillance, the ...

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 ...

Sanders started his speech warning that “we have an administration that is leading us to oligarchy, an administration that is leading us to an authoritarian form of society, an administration that is ...

Trump addresses Congress and plays chicken with tariffs in a show of power; Trump and Vance betray Ukraine’s Zelensky to his face and align with Russia; and we all grapple with the ways Covid ...

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“Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian leader who leads a regime that has imperialistic designs, not just on Ukraine, but on the region, and that is why we need to stand with Ukraine in support of ...

HAVANA TIMES – When we think of the imposition of an authoritarian regime, the image that usually comes to mind is that of an army seizing power, leaders overthrown and freedoms immediately suspended.

I don’t think anybody quite could have anticipated it. That article drew on 20 years of research on competitive authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world. The kinds of stuff we predicted ...

The report stated that during 2024, which witnessed national elections in several countries including India, many contests were marred by violence and authoritarian efforts to restrict voters ...