East and West. The new Russian language dictionary relaunches visions of democracy and autocracy in official ideology.

Katie Couric pressed Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) to acknowledge that the United States is becoming an autocracy during an interview on her podcast. Fetterman disagreed, saying that labeling people as ...

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Few political figures over the past 50 years paved the way for the country’s current crisis more than former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at the age of 84. As George W. Bush’s vice ...

A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future. As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Ralph Klinker’s argument (Letters, Oct. 8) is that new gun laws aren’t needed, only better enforcement. But many shootings involve guns bought legally, showing current laws don’t fix the root problem.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

Rob Reiner, the film director and political activist, in a Sunday appearance on MSNBC warned the nation is sliding into autocracy under President Trump. “We have a year before this country becomes a ...

Actor and director Rob Reiner claimed the United States has only one year before tuning into a “full-on autocracy,” suggesting on MSNBC’s “Velshi” Sunday that President Donald Trump will attempt to ...

During a recent appearance on MSNBC, Oscar-nominated director Rob Reiner issued a call to action against Donald Trump. He said it is “our job now” as influential voices to fight against the ...