Authoritarianism

Machinations of hardliners from Sri Lanka to Hungary, Colombia and more signal the trouble Trump and his supporters could make for the Biden administration.

A week before the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack, Turkey's president waged another kind of assault on one of his country’s last bastions of democratic thought.

Following a now-predictable pattern in the leadup to the polls, authorities have hastened arrests of political opponents and critics of President Museveni.

While European Union membership would be beneficial to Serbia as a whole, it may not serve the interests of the country’s ruling elites.

Pro-democracy political leaders, activists, and media can build on their successes against such influence with help from the world’s leading democracies.

The disruptive potential of this trend will remain a core challenge to political stability as the world staggers toward post-pandemic life.

The repeated violations of fundamental rights and principles corrode the very foundations of the democracy Poland fought so hard to win.

"A simple return to an imagined world of pre-Trump human rights is not enough."

Any other challenge will be exponentially harder to address as long as authoritarian leaders and the militarized systems that support them have free rein.

Given the control that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party wields over the judiciary, their odds of getting a fair trial are slim.

What better way of protecting the truth than by offering a safe haven for journalists who risk their lives to inform us.

Two decades after the landmark UN resolution, the rise of authoritarianism and extreme rightist ideologies have generated backlash against gender equality and the idea of involving…