Scholar and bestselling author Steven Levitsky discusses whether the U.S. will go down a darkly familiar path.

Two studies released this week, by Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit, found international democracy in ...

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Six weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, experts are sounding the alarm for democracy. Trump quickly followed his inauguration with an attack on the bureaucratic state, threats to the rule ...

With the leader of a failed coup back in the White House and pursuing an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, ...

On Wednesday, professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat spoke to more than 80 attendees ...

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MSNBC ’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday asked authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat to explain why some of President Donald Trump ’s “most harsh critics” — such as his now-Vice President JD Vance and ...

Bangladesh has suffered the terrible luck of having to deal with authoritarianism several times since its inception, most ...

Julian BraveNoiseCat and Emily Kassie, directors of 'Sugarcane,' think artists must fight 'authoritarianism' as the world ...

The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms. Over the last 48 hours, ...

“Competitive authoritarianism will transform political life in the United States,” they write in Foreign Affairs. “As Trump’s early flurry of dubiously constitutional executive orders made ...