The New York Times published a project on Friday outlining what the newspaper argued is an alarming shift toward ...

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...

The meeting at Quantico was a transformation point in the second Trump presidency. It turned the assembled admirals and ...

There’s not enough whitewash in the world to cover up the deep ugliness of slavery, and it’s self-destructive for the government to try. The fundamental purpose of recording our shared history is to ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

People argue about whether we are already in an autocracy or close to it. Either way, we are experiencing chaos and crisis. Case in point, the current situation with President Donald Trump’s ...

MSNBC's Analyst Molly Jong-Fast said Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension showed Americans are not ready to sit back and accept President Trump's "autocracy." The post Trump’s ‘Autocracy’ Is Being Rejected ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

Editor: I awoke recently to my 80th birthday; it was also my first in the USSR (spoken only somewhat frivolously). Modern Russia is no less authoritarian than the Soviet nation of an earlier era. And ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let's put ...