Yet this has also been a year in which the very idea and systems of democracy have been tested as seldom before. Autocracies ...

His policies will entail tax cuts and deregulation benefiting the rich and corporate, while cutting back on investments in education, environment, healthcare, and communities.” ...

Ben Rhodes is a co-host of the podcast Pod Save the World and the author of After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made. From 2009 to 2017, he served as U.S. Deputy National Security ...

Perhaps an oligarchy, since he seems ready to share his responsibilities with Elon Musk and a few other well-heeled suits. Or, will it be a kleptocracy, or simply an autocracy?! We’ll have to ...

Too many of the institutions we count on to thwart autocracy are preemptively surrendering ... I've always gone with the definition that an oligarchy is "rule by a few that are rich." ...

This is not representative democracy—it is autocracy or oligarchy. For decades, since gaining independence from direct foreign rule in 1946, the perennial challenge of Philippine governance has been ...

The emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state followed a victory against the neo-colonial regime of Pakistan and its military oligarchy ... an entrenched fascist autocracy, forcing Sheikh ...