The truth is that a world without dictators may not be such a lark. Yes, it has never been harder than it is today to be a dictator. An army of Western experts and activists now stands at the ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s just released Democracy Index 2021 divides the world’s 167 largest countries ... first can be the difference, and today it’s easier than ever.

There are people in power today who got their start decades ... there are millions of people all over the world who cannot do the same. Modern dictators are much like their 20th century ...

For many months now, we have been living in a world ... dictatorship possible in the first place. Opposition movements rarely get stronger and more unified under the pressures of persecution ...

The proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women is hardly a radical document. For example, it proposes that women have the right to file legal complaints against their ...

Hopefully there are students writing their dissertations on this, but my personal analysis is that three things happened: The Myanmar dictatorship ... today; we no longer have to live in a world ...

One of the important differences between the modern world and ... can govern like dictators. Anything that scores 6 or higher is a democracy, and shows up in blue on the map.

For years, he was kept inside a blue plastic box on a shelf with hundreds of other boxes containing unidentified human remains believed to belong to victims of the brutal military dictatorship ...