One of my favorite words in the English language is “doodle.” I love it. The image it conjures is flat-out bipartisan. It ...

The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...

The question: what will follow this government seizure? There is a recognizable pattern: a distinct pathway from democracy to autocracy. It can be found in all failed democracies. Hungary ...

As executive director of the nation's largest grassroots organization of attorneys, I have watched with mounting alarm as each new executive order and action pushes us closer to autocracy.

All of this is a process of rearranging government for an accelerated transition from democracy to autocracy. That includes a new domestic role for the military and new autocratic allies abroad.” U.S.

The US president is making the world safe for autocracy. Trump’s assertion that Ukraine was responsible for its own invasion and that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator was a clarifying moment.

Orwell envisioned an autocracy by brute force and coercion while Huxley predicted the distraction and sedation of the masses to accomplish the takeover. Turns out, as Alex Beam suggests ...

It's a beautiful thing to know that so many dogs and puppies out there are able to find loving forever homes and families to spend their lives with, but at the same time, it can also be a little ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Artist Robert Seaman works on his 365th daily doodle in his room at an assisted living facility Monday, May ...

In looking at the psychology of how people turn away from democracy and embrace autocracy, the author presents potential explanations rooted in the work of several psychological theorists.

Trump seems to be trying to break that record. He is going right down the list of steps in the Autocracy Handbook: Step 1. Make an enemy of multiple subpopulations. Check: immigrants, women ...