TAIPEI--Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China ...

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations — many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged.

Billionaire hedge fund mogul Ray Dalio is warning that Donald Trump is pushing the U.S. into a 1930s-style autocracy. The Bridgewater Associates founder told the FT that government meddling in ...

Writer says Americans condemn autocracy when it happens elsewhere but not in their own country.

Veteran political strategist James Carville suggested that Democrats should embrace "autocracy" ahead of the November election, arguing not everyone should have "a seat at the table." "I would always ...

Democracy experts agree that President Donald Trump is pushing America towards autocracy with little sign of stopping. The New York Times’ Editorial Board launched a chilling “autocracy tracker” for ...

To a casual observer, Donald Trump’s claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and dogs seemed like a bizarre or mistaken claim that ultimately fueled millions of memes, jokes, ...

Jefferson Cowie: My nightmare is that fascism comes to America, but it’s marching under the banner of freedom. Applebaum: We talked about the use of violence and intimidation in politics. Stephen ...

The world is in constant high-speed transition. We have entered a period in which the battles of good and evil, light and dark, democracy and authoritarianism are at high stake and being defined.

A key and crucial attribute of autocratic regimes is that they permit neither dissent nor contradiction. The notion of truth does not matter. In fact, myth and fantasy—as well as unpredictability and ...

“If you have a smart president, they’re not enemies,” former president Donald Trump said about Russia, China and North Korea at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., last month. “You’ll make them do ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...