While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want out There is plenty to worry about in the global contest ...

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.

There have been a number of letters from supporters of President Donald Trump criticizing comparisons of Trump to Adolf Hitler. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United ...

Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The ...

Where are these autocratic ideas coming from? Better yet, who is pushing these ideas? President Trump leans toward being a “global dominator” with his administration’s policies. It’s interesting as to ...

In Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump just made another giant step on his learning curve toward becoming a dominant autocratic ruler. Trump’s repeated failure to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency ...

The U.S. military operation in Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, topped off months of military buildup and targeted strikes in the Caribbean Sea. It fulfills President ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency ...

Katie Couric pressed Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) to acknowledge that the United States is becoming an autocracy during an interview on her podcast. Fetterman disagreed, saying that labeling people as ...