Venezuela’s president has built a system in which the only people who can truly tear down his dictatorship are the ones with ...
China promotes the adoption of autocratic practices by other governments, adapting its approach to suit the local context.
That is the paradox of liberal democracy: to preserve justice, the state must defend the rights of those who would dismantle it. The alternative is a politics of selective legality, in which civil ...

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When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...
Many elections in the 2025 election cycle in Western New York are uncontested, revealing a concerning lack of voter choice ...
There is no doubt that midterm elections will take place in 2026, but it's up to states to decide just how free or fair they will be.
Contrary to popular opinion, however, multipolarity is not a death sentence for the United States. In an era of declining relative U.S. power, it benefits Americans to let other capable countries ...
The event brought together over 1,000 representatives from business, political, diplomatic, academic and journalistic circles from 30 countries.The main theme of the forum — New Energy for New ...
In democratic societies, the people have a voice and a choice; in autocracies, not so much. So rather than focusing on ...
Earlier this year, I wrote to a fellow parliamentarian who is a prominent supporter of the state of Israel. My purpose was to question whether the actions of its government in Gaza were prejudicial to ...
Legal Newsletter connects the authoritarian dots of the Trump administration’s legal actions ahead of the pivotal tariffs ...
By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will come to power in the next elections, ...