We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping today. The list goes on. So, ...

Vice President Kamala Harris said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "wants to be an autocrat" as she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago. Trump "admires dictators, ...

AI appears to offer autocrats two ways to resolve this long-standing dilemma. First, it means they can now easily monitor and discipline their followers in real time. A change in a local official’s ...

None of the students themselves are standing. Instead, “plenums” have selected 250 candidates including academics, medics, ...

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In the past month, President Trump has cleared peaceful demonstrations with tear gas, told governors to “dominate” protesters, and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The staff writer Masha ...

LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who fell foul of the Kremlin, said on Monday that the arrest of Alexei Navalny was an attempt by President Vladimir Putin, whom he ...

Islamist or not, Syria’s self-proclaimed interim president, Ahmad Sharaa, seems like he will do anything to keep power. This is good news and bad news for Sharaa’s two strongest neighbors — Turkey and ...

The best games of my life had no crowd. A field in Chile, the dirt gone to red mud in the rain. A pitch in Cambodia where the turf was just the part of the ground with the least gravel. Voices in four ...