(THE CONVERSATION) Hungarian leader and strongman Viktor Orbán, who presided over the radical decline of democracy in his country, is scheduled to meet with former President Donald Trump, now the ...

The game, however, is far from up. The fact that the United States has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism does not mean that its democratic decline has reached a point of no return.

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His appetite ...

In the initial days of his second term, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders “seeking to control how ...

Based on my numerous assignments abroad, my work for CIA Director William Casey as his special assistant and my subsequent work as a negotiator with North Korea, I have concluded that authoritarianism ...

Appeals to neutrality, civility and “balance” can easily become mechanisms for silencing critique and avoiding responsibility ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — As cities across the nation, including San Diego, prepare for this weekend’s “No Kings” protests, organizers and political analysts alike are drawing sharp comparisons between ...

>>> HELLO, EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO "AMANPOUR & CO." >> DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN GETTING A MAJOR STRESS TEST THIS YEAR WITH NEARLY HALF THE WORLD'S VOTING POPULATION HEADING TO THE POLLS AND MANY CASTING ...

Folks, we’re in trouble. Our democracy is being dismantled. Authoritarianism is banging on our doors. I never imagined I would say those words. But it’s truly happening right in front of our eyes.