Veteran political strategist James Carville suggested that Democrats should embrace “autocracy” ahead of the November election, arguing not everyone should have “a seat at the table.” “I would always ...

MSNBC Political Analyst Molly Jong-Fast said Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension and return to ABC showed Americans are not ready to sit back and accept President Donald Trump's "autocracy." Jong-Fast ...

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy." ...

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Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...

To a casual observer, Donald Trump’s claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and dogs seemed like a bizarre or mistaken claim that ultimately fueled millions of memes, jokes, ...

WASHINGTON ― One year into Donald Trump’s return to the White House, those who warned Americans that he would try to rule as an autocrat confess they got one important detail wrong. They never ...

A key and crucial attribute of autocratic regimes is that they permit neither dissent nor contradiction. The notion of truth does not matter. In fact, myth and fantasy—as well as unpredictability and ...

With more American troops arriving in Eastern Europe, NATO has bolstered its defensive positions around Ukraine—while Moscow has been warned the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline deal will be cancelled if it ...

The world is in constant high-speed transition. We have entered a period in which the battles of good and evil, light and dark, democracy and authoritarianism are at high stake and being defined.

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