Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump recently signed a new presidential memo that the White House says aims to counter domestic terrorism. But legal ...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) says the repeated Democratic warnings that President Trump is trying to turn the United States into an “autocracy” are at odds with the hard-line stance Democratic ...

Today's One Sheet finds the newsletters worried about research that shows America slipping into an autocracy and the FCC ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

During a 40-year career as a Foreign Service Officer and ambassador, serving the United States overseas under both Republican and Democratic administrations, I swore an oath to “support and defend the ...

The Bertelsmann Stiftung's new transformation index says that the world is becoming increasingly autocratic and existing ...

Bill Maher has had varied views on President Donald Trump over the last several months, but on Friday’s “Real Time” he acknowledged that with the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, the ...

Former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams says the U.S. is already at step 9 of the 10 steps to authoritarian rule. Georgia’s former House Minority Leader and candidate for governor, Stacey ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

With a few exceptions, I agree with the objectives of nearly all of the executive orders President Donald Trump has signed during his first few days in the White House. From declaring an emergency on ...