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President Samia Hassan is relying on repressive tactics to eliminate her most significant competitors from the 2025 presidential race.
There are growing signs that American civil society is becoming more vulnerable to the president’s preferences and dictates – something that happens in authoritarian countries.
Media framing shapes people’s understanding of the world. A political communication scholar says that journalistic outlets’ failure to call Donald Trump an authoritarian is a problem for democracy.
Writers have mined the region’s turbulent political history to explore how authoritarian rulers bend institutional leaders to their will.
Fewer than six in ten young Europeans believe that democracy is the best form of government
US presidents have long mixed economic incentives with diplomacy, but Trump’s approach represents something very different.
Herodotus showed how human beliefs and choices affected the fate of nations. His insights are still relevant.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
Authoritarian attitudes – the desire for social conformity and an aversion to difference – play an important role in Americans’ willingness to restrict transgender rights.
Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a ‘spin dictatorship.’
Boycotting elections often contributes to greater authoritarian control and deepens divisions within the opposition.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ book and TV series reflect currents of political turmoil, particularly rising authoritarianism in the United States and the erosion of women’s rights.
Quake-ravaged Tibet has had to contend with censorship and political repression.
Trump’s use of the Justice Department to target political opponents goes beyond revenge − it deters current officials from defying the president.
Calls by Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump to defund public broadcasters seem aimed at silencing criticism and obscuring oversight of their actions. That’s dangerous for democracy.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.
In his second term, President Donald Trump asserted new control over the press − as Hungary’s strongman leader Viktor Orbán had urged him to do.
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
Despite his anarcho-capitalist ideology, which distances him from the European and American far right, Argentina’s Javier Milei has authoritarian tendencies.
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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International Affairs Editor, The Conversation
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
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