Batman doesn’t believe in Superman’s new League and builds an insurgency to fight back against the Regime. What follows is a ...

This fantasy is guided by his contempt for those he sees as inferior, revealing an elitist and authoritarian character. His MAGA campaign is a ruse to deceive and infuriate those who are anxious ...

But it is not in our interests that it become the predominant power in the Indo-Pacific for as long as it retains its authoritarian character. This is where the charge of moral equivalence becomes ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...

With a style as daring as his narrative sense, Rob Tregenza dramatizes the moral dilemmas of Norwegians under Nazi occupation ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The 52-year-old has previously probed the moral cost of his ...

In this masterfully crafted one-hour solo performance, Vanya is Alive presents a universal tale of state oppression through ...

In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.

SIMON: In this society in which your characters live ... we turn the page and you hit us with the words brave new world. Authoritarian states always come in with the promise that they will ...

Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part ...