Letter: We're on dangerous slide into autocracy

Political scientist Marcel Dirsus has researched how dictators build their power. He also knows how to lose it again.

Letter: We're on dangerous slide into autocracy

Using the president’s recent words to the people of Ukraine, I offer a plea to my fellow Americans: “You’d better move fast or you’re not going to have a country

This Monday in the interview with Julio Villagrán, the journalist, Walter Raudales, pointed out that what happened this weekend in the center of San Salvador, with the “voluntary” eviction by informal vendors, is an expulsion of poor people, which responds to an economic plan of the government in turn. “What happens is that when you see it in its conceptual part, you become aware that there is a new model where there is no republic, democracy, n…

Is Bangladesh heading towards becoming a popular autocracy?

Ali Riaz, head of the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC), has publicly revealed that he and his colleagues had examined 121 national constitutions in coming up with recommendations to democratise the constitution. Unsurprisingly, the proposed recommendations seem almost exclusively inspired by an ethos rooted in the idea of representative democracy practised by liberal democracies today, and not in the much older concept of direct democracy on…

Resisting Trump’s Autocracy is Working

[This is a submitted opinion article by John Popham, 1st Vice Chair of the Cobb County Democratic Committee] It’s been a month since Donald Trump took office and began “flooding the zone” with executive orders aimed to implement his Project 2025 as quickly as possible.  This avalanche of cruelty towards vulnerable populations is meant to be overwhelming and crushing, but the dedication of decent people has shown that Trump is not as invulnerable…