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Soaring prices, mortgages, and rent didn't come from capitalism — they came from government overspending. Now socialists want more government as the cure.

Viewed individually, these initiatives appear to be about technical legal questions that might appear arcane to anyone not ...

Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.

Vice President JD Vance recently visited Hungary to support the failed reelection bid of Viktor Orbán, an autocratic leader who has systematically dismantled the country’s legal system and taken ...

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has become a kind of godfather of competitive authoritarianism, an autocratic visionary for the 21st century that right-wing parties around the world are seeking ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

In the opening scene of the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, a dead body lies in front of a gas station in the middle of nowhere. When the police arrive, they are not interested in the body, but ...

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As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.