When free speech and independent journalism disappear, citizens are less likely to learn about government corruption or ...

Autocracy: “A system of government by one person with absolute power.” We’re not heading towards an autocracy. We have arrived.

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

This article adheres to strict editorial standards. Some or all links may be monetized. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates — the world’s largest hedge fund — isn’t one to mince words and his ...

The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and ...

Houston, we have a problem … And I mean Houston literally and humorously. America today is pretty much an autocratic plutocracy. That is a technical political term: “a system of governance where ...