Politicians, lawyers and journalists who left behind autocratic systems in Europe, Asia and Latin America see the Trump ...

In a dangerous world, democracies cannot afford to alienate every nondemocracy. But any alliance with an autocratic regime requires at least a careful weighing of trade-offs. How valuable is the ...

The first of these is one unique element of Trump’s autocratic efforts: Elon Musk. There isn’t a real analogue, in any of the other countries that slid into autocracy, to the way the richest ...

A second distortion of nationalism comes when autocratic rulers seek to expand their countries’ borders in order to include peoples who have always rightfully “belonged” to them or should ...

In addition to wanting to avoid these blights on society, polling data consistently demonstrates that people want to live in countries where they have real input on decisions that impact their lives.