SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) – In wake of cross-country protesting, political analysts are drawing sharp comparisons between democratically elected leaders — like the president of the United States — and the ...

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was supposed to create a leadership vacuum at the top of the Islamic Republic. Instead, ...

From surveillance states to militarized order, these movies show how authoritarian systems take hold. Periods of political uncertainty tend to revive stories about authority, obedience, and control.

Even Orbán’s defenders are forced to admit that corruption was endemic in Hungary under his illiberal rule. “Orban’s Fidesz ...

The U.S. today faces what is widely viewed as a crisis of democratic backsliding, experts say, spurred by a right-wing populist political movement. Common ways of understanding why this is happening ...

People are always asking, “Do you think that the world is moving toward an authoritarian system of government? Do you think that philosophy is moving toward a new anti-idealistic realism ? Do you ...

The past offers crucial lessons about the psychological effects of living under authoritarianism, a growing threat worldwide. In the former Soviet Union, citizens developed what historians called a ...

Words matter. I'm reminded of this almost daily by a framed Nathaniel Hawthorne quote in my office that I received as a gift some years ago, which reads: "Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, ...