On Monday, the Supreme Court banished any doubt that it has claimed absolute authority to reshape the federal government as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that’s the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which ...

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.

Ahead of a Monday oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, as a 90-year-old firing protection precedent hangs in the balance, the federal appeals court for Washington, D.C., on the strength of a 2-1 ...

A key and crucial attribute of autocratic regimes is that they permit neither dissent nor contradiction. The notion of truth does not matter. In fact, myth and fantasy—as well as unpredictability and ...

F or more than two centuries, American colleges have been wrestling earnestly, if not always successfully, with a set of questions rooted in the assumption that they were situated within a democratic ...