#authoritarianism

#authoritarianism

Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than three decades and is now on his seventh term. However, he signalled he does not intend to seek another term in office.

Public opinion polls indicate significant concern among Americans regarding President Trump's extensive use of executive power, fostering various protests against perceived authoritarianism.

Ron Deibert plans to address the merging of technology and authoritarianism at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, emphasizing the role of big tech in collective insecurity.

"We have crossed a line. We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there. The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here."

This bill hands over a staggering $170bn to the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up this administration's brutal immigration enforcement agenda.

"Her phone buzzes-no bars. Wi-Fi icon: dead. The protest footage from last night sits trapped in her device like a caged bird with clipped wings. She filmed everything: the tear gas clearing, protesters linking arms, riot shields retreating."

The 'Nerd Reich' is a web of powerful, ultra-wealthy tech billionaires whose politics push the country away from democracy towards unrestrained capitalism and monarchy.

The plea from inside a Russian prison by 11 political prisoners emphasizes the need for a ceasefire or peace agreement with the mass release of political prisoners and Ukrainian hostages.

Costa calls it "one of the fastest religious shifts in human history," with the percentage of Brazilians who identify as evangelical jumping sixfold over the past 40 years, to nearly a third of the population.

In her immersive work of nonfiction, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland documents the decades-long struggle to recover children who, during Argentina's Dirty War, were snatched away from detained dissidents.

James Ryan declared that while he was committed to the university and inclined to fight, he could not in good conscience push back just to save his job.

Liberalism hinges on the belief that language can transparently describe reality, facilitating rational debate on diverse visions for a better society.

The GOP's tax bill introduces significant cuts to the U.S. safety net, marking the largest reduction in decades. This fundamentally alters the fiscal landscape.

The home secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action and to lay an order so swiftly in parliament on Monday will be viewed as a dangerous acceleration to authoritarianism.

In this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, it is hard to move, let alone imagine what one can do to transform this horror to good.

"Autocrats almost always use emergencies, sometimes real ones, sometimes exaggerated ones, and sometimes invented ones ... to accumulate power," said Steven Levitsky.

You won't silence me! The people deserve to know! I want a public trial! Ruth López, a prominent lawyer in El Salvador, declared as she was arrested.

The Oslo Freedom Forum is a convergence of courage, truth, and defiance that demands you listen, feel, and act against oppression.

The founding of the United States was a secessionist movement, seeking to withdraw from British governance rather than engaging in revolution as defined today.

Fascism and authoritarianism are deployed through law enforcement, and recent ICE raids in sanctuary cities highlight this chilling reality.