Using the 20th century as a case in point, during which close to 170 million people died under ruthless dictators such as ...

What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and ...

The crucial tie is money, hence the book’s title, Autocracy, Inc. Autocrats use state power to extract resources from their own people and from every contract they sign with each other, with the money ...

This is the pattern Americans must now watch out for, and resist. In the book, “Surviving Autocracy,” Masha Gessen writes of how, at the time, both Hitler and Stalin struck many of their ...

A battle between democracy and autocracy." On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Biden: "Today, the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America's determination to ...

Drawing on what she had seen happen under strongman Vladimir Putin in her native Russia, Gessen published a 2,500-word essay in the New York Review of Books called “Autocracy: Rules for Survival ...