While Trump has praised autocrats of all shapes and sizes—ranging from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Hungary’s Orbán to North ...

Investment in supporting democracy in its neighbourhood and beyond is not charity. It serves strategic interests ...

How today's dictators are forging powerful global alliances to weaken democracies from the inside out.

This interview has been edited for brevity. How has HRW managed to establish leverage on autocracies indifferent to human rights? Our focus is to put pressure on the perpetrators and say ...

Social media ripped into members of Donald Trump’s cabinet as they fawned over the president and his first 100 days back at the White House, with the TV cameras rolling for all to see. Billionaire ...

Valiente is among some local emigrés from countries that have suffered under autocracies who say Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest — apparently for co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion piece in a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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What does it mean? It means autocracy doesn't function in isolation now. Nowadays, different autocracies are networked together and function through various mechanisms. Autocratic regimes ...

In her research, Gandhi examines how autocracies use institutions, such as legislatures, parties, and elections, to consolidate their power. She also investigates the conditions under which opposition ...

said that for the first time in more than two decades the world has more autocracies than democracies. Now, under Mr. Trump, democracy is at risk even in its citadel, the United States.