Authoritarian governments love to fight wars. They’re very bad at winning them
Authoritarianism has become fashionable today among sizable segments of former Allied countries. The irony is that their ...
Latin Times6h
Congress Steps Up Pressures on Venezuela With New Bill and Increased Reward for Maduro's Arrest
The BOLIVAR Act would prohibit the U.S. from contracting with anyone with business ties to Maduro, as Florida lawmakers ...
Mother Jones4d
The Bureaucrat Who Could Make Trump’s Authoritarian Dreams Real
After years in Washington, DC, soaking in the minutiae of policy, Vought had come to both know and loathe the bureaucracy. A ...
New Republic10dOpinion
Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism
You’ve read about the scary horrors of a Trump second term. But a legal war of attrition that harasses MAGA’s enemies and ...
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries
Sandvine sold its internet surveillance products to authoritarian regimes, including Belarus, Egypt, Eritrea, the United Arab ...
Newstalk8h
Opposition welcome changes to 'authoritarian' Hate Crime Bill
Aontú has welcomed the Government’s decision to row back on the controversial Hate Crime Bill. Peadar Tóibín said there is no ...
Serbian appeals court overturns ruling to extradite to Belarus a critic of its authoritarian regime
An appeals court in Serbia has overturned an earlier ruling that a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in ...
EU may suspend visa-free travel for Georgians if election not free and fair
The European Union may consider temporarily suspending its visa-free regime with Georgia if an Oct. 26 parliamentary election ...
Trump’s Economics, Too, Are Sounding More Authoritarian
The economic record of authoritarians is mixed. On the good side, an authoritarian or autocratic leader who governs honestly ...
Human Rights Watch3d
Foreign Agent Laws in the Authoritarian Playbook
From Russia to Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia to Hungary, “foreign agent” style laws have become a preferred instrument for ...
A Belarus government critic appeals to the Serbian president against his extradition
A prominent Belarus filmmaker and a critic of Minsk’s authoritarian government has handed a letter to the Serbian presidency ...
The Washington Post10d
Serbian appeals court overturns ruling to extradite to Belarus a critic of its authoritarian regime
BELGRADE, Serbia — An appeals court in Serbia on Wednesday overturned an earlier court ruling that a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Belarus should be extradited to that ...