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Mark Rutte is the man who has been tasked with keeping Trump happy while setting up NATO for a new, more dangerous era in ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Trump-backed proposal to conduct a new census and redraw congressional districts is clearly ...

Today, the United States itself is at risk of being turned into a military dictatorship. Its liberal-democratic institutions ...

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Orban invented the term "illiberal democracy," an oxymoron that has become a model for others. Netanyahu tried to destroy the judicial system and showed how to use war to hold on to power. Trump ...

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...