As millions watched Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday night, one performer jumped atop a car prop and unfurled a half Sudanese-half Palestinian flag before they ...

If one were to design a path to authoritarian rule, it would be what we have seen in the first weeks of the Trump administration. For my book “No Democracy Lasts Forever,” I studied how ...

"Your scheme to alter the schedule for the special election is a serious abuse of power that is more alike to election processes in authoritarian countries than anything we see in the United States." ...

Flags in Arizona and across the U.S. continue to fly at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. On the death of a former president, the U.S. Flag Code states that flags must be flown ...

First, to state the obvious, this order is an obvious smokescreen, invoking a grab bag of far-right bogeyman as means to justify an authoritarian power grab. And second, and of immediate ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

Unlike in a full-scale dictatorship, in competitive-authoritarian regimes, opposition forces are legal and aboveground, and they often seriously vie for power. Elections may be fiercely contested.

According to U.S. flag code, "all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels" will fly at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a president Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...

As we near nine years of Stellaris, the sprawling Paradox space strategy game remains one of the best in the business. Despite maintaining a strong presence on Steam after all these years ...

You can get in touch with Marni by emailing m.mcfall@newsweek.com. The American flag will be flown at full staff on January 20 as as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang During his Inaugural Address on Monday ...

Experts say the suspension has another, far more serious consequence: emboldening authoritarian strongmen. Wrapped into the billions the U.S. spends annually on foreign aid — more than any other ...