Authoritarianism

Merkel asked Harris about the role of authoritarianism and democracy in the United States, the vice president said.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order targeting President Alexander Lukashenko over an ongoing "assault against the democratic aspirations and human rights of the Belarusian people."

Boaters said they would not enter Cuban territory in an effort to avoid escalation and potential consequences.

"Nine people broke into our apartment, seized all the equipment and took Aleh away in handcuffs," Maryana Hruzdzilovich, one journalist's wife, told the AP.

"What hypocrisy," tweeted the progressive independent senator from Vermont on Sunday.

The arrest follows a Belarus military jet intercepting a Ryanair flight in order to detain a dissident journalist traveling from Lithuania to Greece.

It doesn't matter whether the enemies of democracy are foreign or domestic, born of a global virus or an all-American homegrown authoritarianism, let our generation be no less prepared than any other to take them on.

Right wing populism has firmly replaced conservatism for many Republicans.

They are deliberate, substantive attacks on the rule of law, truth in political discourse, and Americans' rights, freedoms, and values.

The president's "patriotic education" commission does not highlight American exceptionalism but rather his fondness for the tactics of authoritarian regimes.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council director and impeachment witness, warned that President Donald Trump's efforts to please Russian President Vladimir Putin are a direct threat to American democracy.

"Nero fiddled while Rome burned," Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said Monday during remarks at the Democratic National Convention. "Trump golfs."

Millennials must respond to the heavy hand of the baby boomers.

The "Strategic Multilayer Assessment" suggested the U.S. is underestimating the threat posed by states such as Russia.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain himself, will become Brazil's first far-right leader since the 1964-85 military regime, a period he has expressed nostalgia for.

As many as a million people are believed to be detained in the centers.

The new work follows earlier evidence that conservatives are more prone to a sense of disgust.

"Psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective."

Donald Trump has all the traits of an authoritarian ruler and is unlike any politician the United States has experienced since at least the Civil War, two Harvard political science professors have found.

An author who studies authoritarian regimes says Trump is mirroring the tactics of despots throughout history.

Chris Patten was the last British governor of Hong Kong, which was handed over to China 20 years ago.

Turkey's deepening authoritarianism allowed Erdogan to galvanize public support against the attempted coup.

Democrats who think Trump will be easy to defeat in November may be whistling past the graveyard.