The question is not whether the United States is becoming Hungary but how long ago we passed that threshold of authoritarian government where business leaders stay silent, universities and huge law ...

On Monday, shortly after Donald Trump gave a speech at the Israeli parliament, he traveled to Egypt to sign a memorandum related to the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire deal. While in Egypt, the president sat ...

DHUMAIR, Syria, Oct 14 - The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an ...

Democrats’ latest wager seems to be paying off as they continue to hold firm in a government shutdown as a deliberate act of resistance. So far, the sticking point for those leading the charge has ...

Former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe” even in countries once believed to be able to withstand it. Alyssa Farah Griffin under scrutiny over ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against President ...

Nicaragua’s authoritarian government has begun holding dissidents without revealing their whereabouts or acknowledging their detention. Two have turned up dead. By Frances Robles Frances Robles has ...

Words matter. I'm reminded of this almost daily by a framed Nathaniel Hawthorne quote in my office that I received as a gift some years ago, which reads: "Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, ...

The "alarm bells of authoritarianism are ringing loud and clear", the leader of the Green Party has said, as he hit out at Labour and Reform politics. The newly elected party leader, Zack Polanski, ...

President Donald Trump and Congress were unable to reach a funding agreement by midnight on Tuesday, leading the federal government to shut down on Wednesday. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined OPB’s ...

The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, ...