When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

This growing authoritarianism is also threatening national security.

Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh took out their anger at exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday by ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected ...

However, the fact that Mozambique, Eswatini and Angola are member states of the AU and Sadc has not curbed growing authoritarianism and human rights abuses in those countries, which brings into ...

Queen’s University professor Oded Haklai, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed changes to the judiciary are part of a ...

Recent history shows that Islamists are the likeliest inheritors of post-authoritarian Middle Eastern societies. And once they assume power, it is very hard to dislodge them. In Syria, the odds are ...

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When Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta would stop its fact-checking efforts on its social media platforms, he was conducting a master class in bowing to authoritarianism. The move has been viewed ...