The characterisation of China as a “passive Black Knight” makes sense of this apparent dichotomy. While China will shore up ...

I expect the oscillation to continue. There are good reasons to believe that a permanent slide into autocracy is harder in the U.S. than in those countries. The U.S. has a robust and wealthy ...

At least, that's the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace , which measures regime qualities of countries worldwide based on the competitiveness and integrity of their elections, ...

Examine two key defense mechanisms for resisting autocracy: the separation of political powers and the autonomy of civil society. Use these frameworks to assess the extent of US regression towards ...

In this brazen act of political suppression, the Turkish government has taken a momentous step toward full-fledged autocracy. The scheme to take Imamoglu out of play was calculated and thorough. On ...

Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or some combination? We need not dig too deeply in the annals of history to see how and what happens when a democracy slips into ...

After Joe Biden’s election to the presidency in 2020, I believed our nation’s flirtation with autocracy and tyranny had ended. Not so. Following the unprecedented consolidation of power by the ...