Taxation is the most prominent incidence and feature of autocracy. It is prominent because autocratic power by taxation ...

There’s a new essay out from one half of the Amodei duo that created Anthropic, a firm often billed as a kinder, gentler AI ...

In principle, a person who supports a government of, by, and for the people should not also support a system that ...

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If US elites can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy ...

The NGO warns that the rules-based order is being crushed under relentless pressure from the US, China and Russia.

Putin’s dictionary certainly promotes traditional family values. The definition of the word “hatred” gives the example usage “hatred of the institution of the family,” while the word “heroine” is ...

The parallels between the current U.S. political leadership and the Big Brother of Orwell’s “1984” — while a bit cliche — ...

The Republican president's immigration crackdown, threats to voting rights and other policies were raised as examples.

Is democracy ‘‘natural’’ for humans,  Erich Kolig  asks.  Gwynne Dyer, in his interesting column ‘‘World View’’, has argued several times, ...

If there’s a Theater of the Absurd, of which Waiting for Godot is one of the prime examples, then these three novels would make a similar claim to be ...

Intimidation, violence and obstruction were only some of the many ways the voting exercise was seriously damaged, diminishing the relative value of the resulting figures ...