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REAL TIME: Bill Maher and Megyn Kelly debate whether another Donald Trump presidency would be a deterrent to "dictator countries" - or turn the United States into one. "Putin did not invade ...

HBO 'Real Time' host Bill Maher in an exchange with Megyn Kelly said the real threat from former President Donald Trump is "what he might do" as president if reelected.

The news adds to growing concern that an axis of autocracies has formed among Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. Their goal? To test, and ultimately break, U.S., and Western dominance more ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled dissidents if the host nation thinks it’s in its economic interest. That is what we found ...

Rebecca Cordell, University of Pittsburgh and Kashmiri Medhi, University of Texas at Dallas (THE CONVERSATION) Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled ...