I’ve been inundated with messages from concerned federal employees. Many of you have reported disturbing developments ...

Authoritarian leaders around the world are applauding Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID.

Political economists have a name for that: state capture. State capture occurs when wealthy private interests influence a ...

Project 2025 outlines how to turn America into a right wing, authoritarian dictatorship style government. Learn about Project 2025 the Heritage Foundation and the mandate for conservative fascist ...

The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be ...

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected ...

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

Nearly three decades after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian leader, General Suharto, the nation's new president is causing unease among liberals and others by increasingly turning to the once-all ...

Ms. Cole is a producer with Opinion Video. Mr. Westbrook is an editor and producer with Opinion Video. Exile. Imprisonment. The end of elections. We know what tyranny looks like once it’s ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., argued Sunday was the "eve" of an "authoritarian" regime as ... remove third-party fact-checkers as other examples of right-wing control. She further claimed ...

The U.S. has always viewed the internet with something akin to national pride, and for decades has condemned attempts by authoritarian governments — especially China’s — to restrict access ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was ...