Since his return to power in 2023, Prime Minister Robert Fico has implemented measures to exert control over the media in Slovakia. Since years, Fico expresses contempt for press freedom, frequently ...

Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A quick Google search reveals many articles, commentaries, social media posts, and scholarly debates on whether or not America is sliding into an ...

During a visit to Uzbekistan on Monday, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suggested that authoritarian states may be more economically efficient than democracies and called for a reassessment of ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

Competitive-authoritarian governments further subvert democracy by shielding those who engage in criminal or antidemocratic behavior through captured referees and other impunity mechanisms.

A man has gone on trial for last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico ...

But that doesn’t mean the country won’t experience authoritarianism in some form. Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected.

Quake-ravaged Tibet has had to contend with censorship and political repression.

National | NPR Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand ...

WASHINGTON — A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism. In ...