Maria Ressa, the journalist who earned the Nobel Peace Prize for her attempts to save freedom of expression in the ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

The administration has so far defied the Supreme Court, hiding behind the autocratic government of El Salvador, which it ...

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I was reminded of such instances of “extraordinary rendition” in the Bush-Cheney era when I read about the Trump administration’s March 2025 deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego García to a grim ...

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MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

For a brief moment, Eritreans were full of hope. They assumed independence would bring more freedom and better economic ...

For example, the uncertainty created by Trump ... He had a legal means of countering Trump’s autocratic agenda—rallying his party to refuse to advance the Republican spending bill—but ...

Healy: What’s an example of Trump being half-right that ... which isn’t quite autocracy, but resembles not only Orban’s Hungary, but Erdogan’s Turkey as well. On the other hand, I am ...