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Informant culture is so embedded in everyday Iranian life that there are common Persian terms to describe it.
What do Mali’s military rulers and Burundi’s governing party have in common?
Taiwan pushes back every day against an authoritarian vision of international order that allows dictator regimes to decide who’s allowed to be seen, named and heard.
Rallies hold great significance in Tanzania and are central to everyday political communication.
Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.
Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
New research indicates that collective forms of governance were more likely.
Democracies can either defend rights in the digital age, or drift into complicity as the architects of a new, global authoritarianism enabled by AI.
Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
The Trump administration has made many threats against nonprofits whose missions it disagrees with.
Democracy cannot thrive, or even survive, when its leaders see themselves as godlike and divide citizens into believers and heretics, a scholar writes.
Orbán’s 16-year rule changed Hungary’s religious landscape.
A key challenge facing Magyar will be to undo the system Orbán has put in place to exercise control over Hungary.
Polling in Russia suggests strong support for President Vladimir Putin. Yet below the surface, popular sentiment is more mixed.
Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.
Amin Naeni, an expert on digital authoritarianism, tracks how Iran built the capability to shutdown the internet. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice – and exposed the atrocities of a dictatorship.
The House Un-American Activities Committee was given sweeping powers to investigate subversion in the US in the mid-20th century.
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