Canada is likely to witness a turn toward more aggressive right-wing politics. This shift was set in motion by the ...

Tellingly, Winkie continued, “members of the reliably liberal podcasting commentariat are few and far between on the charts alongside ... and many have a libertarian bent, so it’s natural ...

Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few week ...

His fans on the libertarian right hail Musk as a genius entrepreneur and defender of freedom. In his media role (today the apparently dominant use of his time), Musk is above all an increasingly ...

But that doesn’t mean the country won’t experience authoritarianism in some form. Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century ...

How do constitutional democracies die? The Trump administration is following a well-worn pathway toward autocracy ...

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." ...

They have provided ideological cover for authoritarian conservatives, even advocating policies antithetical to liberty. The logical endpoint of this distortion was the rise of a self-proclaimed ...

(Johannesburg) – Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025.

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 ...