Protesters run as Cameroonian security forces use water cannons to disperse them during the country's latest election, whose integrity was widely challenged. AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal Autocratic ...

For all of the Biden administration’s rhetoric about democracies versus autocracies being the defining challenge of our times, if democracies are in trouble, autocracies may be the least of their ...

Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese construction workers at a Belt and Road Initiative site in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2023. Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images China currently faces daunting ...

Sir Lawrence Freedman, an emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London, said Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy in Ukraine is "deluded," adding that his actions demonstrate the ...

For the last several years the autocracies seemed to have the upper hand. In autocracy, power is centralised. Leaders can respond to challenges quickly, shift resources decisively. China showed that ...

Autocracies around the world have become increasingly mutually reinforcing in their competition with democratic societies, Pulitzer Prize winning U.S. journalist and historian Anne Applebaum said in ...

The new strategic-partnership agreement between China and Saudi Arabia illustrates how autocracies are finding common cause in resisting Western pressure on human rights, even if they sometimes find ...

Thanks to “Red Notice,” the new Netflix movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, Interpol is enjoying new fame. Of course, the International Criminal Police Organization is nothing ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Pierre Bienaimé: President-elect Donald Trump and the CEO of SoftBank announced a ...

MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Thanks, Christiane. Anne Applebaum, thank you so much for joining us. ANNE APPLEBAUM, STAFF WRITER, THE ATLANTIC: Delighted. MARTIN: You’ve been writing with some urgency ...