We are eight years into his takeover of the Republican Party, his creation of a group of MAGA accolades who signed up and ...

The move is a reflection of a long-standing DOJ position that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted, a position cited ...

1) Do not normalize. When the autocrat’s speech and behavior are outside the norm and are unacceptable, say so.

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

Surveys show that Trump’s supporters don’t just tolerate his autocratic tendencies. They positively like them.

Rev. Robert Montgomery writes that Donald Trump's lies, which have been increasing as he feels more desperate, sets a ...

We’re in a conflicted period of apathy and imperial decline, alternating with working-class rage and then aggressive lunges, like supporting Israel’s expanding bloody wars.

Over the course of his time in office, the light of Biden’s pro-democracy fire has dimmed. Neither Harris nor Trump appear ...

In this episode of Radio Atlantic, we talk to Pomerantsev and Atlantic staff writer and co-host Anne Applebaum about how to detect the signs of autocracy, because, as they say, if you can’t spot ...

In the U.S., there are strong indications that American voters continue to turn inward. A recent Morning Consult poll found ...

Something similar can be said about her latest offering, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. In a few ...

Despite the middle class's reputation as a champion of democracy, Bryn Rosenfeld argued that in these countries, the middle class itself favoured autocracy, citing a mutually beneficial arrangement ...